encase
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Enormous machines wrapped layers of carbon around 40-foot-long cylinders, producing carbon tubes that can encase burning rocket fuel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
She thought perhaps she could keep them, encase them in a necklace to wear in memory.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2025
Michigan regulators in December approved the company’s $500 million plan to encase the portion of the pipeline beneath the straits in a tunnel to mitigate risk.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
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
The constructor was thus led to encase the lower parts of his walls in a cuirass of stone imposed upon their brick cores.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir
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
It also uses a different type of fuel that encases uranium within silicon carbide, a durable substance that can withstand extreme temperatures and is expected to make the power plant safer to operate.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2023
When a caterpillar finally encases itself into a pupa, it doesn’t just grow wings and emerge as a butterfly.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2023
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
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
They are encased and unlikely to leach into the soil.
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2026
His heart froze, encased in a block of ice.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
The 360-degree curved glass walls encasing the galleries offered many glimpses of a face that belonged to me but somehow wasn’t mine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 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
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
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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