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encase

[en-kays] / ɛnˈkeɪs /


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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

She thought perhaps she could keep them, encase them in a necklace to wear in memory.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2025

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

B. M. were required to encase the 200 cu. yds. of concrete in one floor, including columns, it would have required 34,000 ÷ 200 = 170 ft.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

“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

Agnew and Hamilton knew from their years practicing military surgery that the human body often encases a bullet in a cyst, or sac, making it harmless.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

Soon, Mr. Skarsgård emerges, or rather doesn’t; he spends the entire film encased in wicker, acting with his eyes and his voice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

The excavation process took longer than usual, about 10 days, since the fossils were encased in very hard mudstone under six feet of rock, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

I have, it turns out, a thing for sausage encased in dough.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

Unlike the cluttered spaces he’d peeked into up the hall, this room had only a long table encased in glass.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

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

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

Coach Sean McVay provided no specifics, but Kupp exited the locker room with a knee-high protective boot encasing his left foot and ankle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2024

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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