encase
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Especially brilliant are the contributions of puppet designer James Ortiz, particularly the menacing tendrils that encase Willie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Floating on a wall just inside a heavy door on Ninth Avenue, 14 resin sculptures of varying sizes and delicate, glowing colors encase ephemera from across the ages.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
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
As one way to stop the thefts, Metro is working to encase its copper wires in concrete.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2023
The true method is to encase the building in a network of rods, when it will take its charge quietly like a Leyden jar.
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
“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
But there is no denying that even his forays into décor — such as a commercially produced, now-popular coffee table that encases pounds of blue powder inside a plexiglass box — emit a celestial flavor.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
Along the cliffs, a white dragon is stirring to life, its movements cracking the ice that encases it.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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Keurig is rolling out a line of single-serve coffee rounds made of compressed grounds encased in a seaweed-based coating.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
I have, it turns out, a thing for sausage encased in dough.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
Azure’s results are encased somewhere in those numbers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 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
Everything pointed to the possibility that the fuel in the spent pool was no longer underwater, and that the zirconium cladding that encased the fuel rods had ignited.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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For the aircraft of tomorrow, Safran is also developing an "open fan" engine free of the nacelle or encasing, which traditionally encloses and protects the fan blades.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
When it does bloom, the spathe — leaflike structures encasing the plant — unfurl around 3 or 4 p.m., reaching maximum size in the early hours of the morning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
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
He made careful preparations, wrapping himself in several coats and mufflers and encasing his neat boots in goloshes.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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