But, from a Chinese perspective, First Son-in-Law, as a job description, supersedes even Kushner's official role as a senior adviser to Donald Trump, and the myriad jobs which that role has come to encompass, from bringing peace to the Middle East to handling relations with, among other countries, China.
Over several years this collection has grown to encompass materials from many other campus libraries.
But in this postmodern era, the definition of poetry is elastic enough to encompass everything from the quotidian to the transcendent.
Direct action has become a category used to encompass everything from lobbying days and mass rallies to encampments and pitched street-fights with police.
Luckily, her backing musicians are supple enough to encompass anything from down-home folk through sophisticated lounge jazz to a giddy gypsy-dance fling.
It's used, uselessly, to encompass everything from Colombian cumbia to Nigerian highlife to the throat singing of Huun-Huur-Tu, a band from the Republic of Tuva that's been making spectacularly strange music for almost two decades.
But what has changed over the past decade is the way that the amorphous language of antisocial behaviour has come to encompass everything from littering and loitering to precursors of serious criminality.
Reality television has so rapidly broadened — to encompass everything from the Machiavellian deceit of "Survivor" to the bone-headed guesses about which briefcase has the money in "Deal or No Deal" — it's a wonder that it took this long for a postmodern twist to occur, especially since one of the most accomplished films about the genre was one of the earliest.
It's a tough question at a time when "design" no longer means the world of desirable objects that fill the pages of Sunday supplements, but has expanded to encompass everything from digital networks to artificial organs, extending its slippery tentacles into every field imaginable – and inventing new ones that don't yet exist.
The "Rebuilding Britain, for the many, not the few" strapline is meant to encompass everything from tackling inequality to boosting infrastructure investment – and to allow Labour to rekindle a "Build it in Britain" campaign that it had hoped to focus upon in the summer before the antisemitism row blew it off course.
That word has come to encompass everything from disabling the grid, to manipulating an election, to worrying about that letter arriving in the mail warning that someone – maybe criminals, maybe the Chinese – just grabbed our credit cards, social security numbers and medical histories, for the second or third time.
