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encase

[en-keys] / ɛnˈkeɪs /


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Steel ribs encase the viewer, giving one the feeling of being in an upturned ship, as a soundtrack that ranges from gospel singing to mechanical clicks plays in the background.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 17, 2025

However, the quantum noise that lurks inside the vacuum tubes that encase LIGO's laser beams can alter the timing of the photons in the beams by minutely small amounts.

From Science Daily Oct. 23, 2023

Russell Murphy, Lime’s communications director, said the company uses the best available waterproofing technology to encase its batteries.

From Seattle Times Aug. 19, 2023

As The Times reported in May on the growing number of assaults against Metro bus drivers, the agency is attempting to curtail such incidents by installing floor-to-ceiling plastic walls that fully encase the driver.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 22, 2023

Like Rabelais, he can use the pencil to greater ends under cover of the motley, and encase bitter truths with the gilt of a printed jest.

From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann

“Midnight Movement” encases Monk’s best-known melody, “’Round Midnight” within a chiming, repeated figure and a gauze of natural overtones and synth tones.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

The operation's name - "matryoshkas" are Russian nesting dolls - mirrors its method, which encases an original false claim in layers of ambient re-posts from old or hacked social media accounts.

From BBC Feb. 27, 2026

Most quantum computers include a component casually referred to as a “fridge,” a cryogenic enclosure that encases the processor and keeps it cold.

From Barron's Jan. 6, 2026

Indeed, “American Fiction’s” fervent admirers have suggested that its satire is merely the Trojan horse that encases a warm family-drama heart, but even that juxtaposition suggests just how little the individual elements really jell.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 24, 2024

Carefully she shapes a bit of the potato around a spoonful of cooked ground lamb, as uniformly as the white of a hard-boiled egg encases its yolk.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Messenger RNA technology uses synthetic molecular instructions encased in tiny fat bubbles that temporarily enter cells, causing them to produce targets that train the body’s immune system.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

Fortuitously, the small kiosk where Gil was encased acted as a kind of buffer, offering some measure of protection from the accumulation of debris looming above.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 5, 2026

Strawberries and white wine were on the menu, and - as has now become customary - one of the empty bottles was annotated and encased in a glass table to commemorate Sinner's latest success.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

Custom kitchens designed by Christopher Peacock are encased in wood and fluted glass cabinetry with 2-inch-thick Calacatta marble on the kitchen islands.

From MarketWatch Apr. 30, 2026

Roger is encased in a tomato-red glow, and his mother is yellow.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

Bulletproof glass encasing the portico for his annual appearance with the Easter Bunny?

From Slate Apr. 28, 2026

This mammoth died nearby, but his carcass slumped into an ancient stream bed and was covered by sediment and eventually topped by the pits’ oozing asphalt, encasing and preserving his bones.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 22, 2026

Older taxidermy specimens are frequently displayed, experts say, with museums taking precautions like using special vacuums to clean them — or encasing them in glass.

From Seattle Times Feb. 23, 2024

As the bones were carefully freed from the encasing rock, experts were surprised to find scraps of the dinosaur’s last meal.

From National Geographic Dec. 8, 2023

In its place was a white marble tomb, encasing Dumbledore’s body and the table on which he had rested.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling




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