enclose
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Two new walls, built to enclose the porch, didn’t feature exposed brick like the others, so Robe set them apart with burgundy Jennifer Shorto wallpaper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026
They requested China enclose this section inside the embassy's security perimeter.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025
For many, the idea of hunkering down in a fire shelter for hours on end as flames enclose on all sides is hard to stomach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
Their capsule-like shape can enclose and protect mRNA, which provides instructions for cells to manufacture proteins.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024
She reaches me and we peer at each other’s faces, looking down the white tunnels of cloth that enclose us.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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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
While standard drones use spinning propellers that slice through open air, creating that high-pitched buzz, Greenjets encloses spinning blades inside a pod, to muffle the sound and direct the noise away from the ground.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Eukaryotic cells contain a nucleus that encloses their DNA.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
This curvaceous shape encloses an open and spacious cabin, with plenty of light in the second row and versatile storage in the stern.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
I know, without checking more than a few feet to one side, that it encloses the entire four-to-five-o’clock wedge.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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Another truffle hunter in Umbria in central Italy said that better areas for truffles this year were "more enclosed, cooler mountain valleys, where the moisture held" during the summer.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
It has the same horse-shaped head tilted down from the body, the same curled and grasping tail, and in the males a fully enclosed pouch for brooding the young.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
In 1965, American superfan Kathy Salt wrote to then-occupant Ashley Jones, who enclosed a photograph of the house and a key, with a tag attached, in his letter back.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
That’s enough to power thousands of homes, but they usually need less than a quarter of an acre of space, with the batteries enclosed in steel-walled containers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
All around his house were small square patches of things enclosed in fences to keep the rabbits out, and—as Harry said—to keep the flowers and vegetables in.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
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Bizarrely, a green gate and fence enclosing the site stood untouched.
From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 2026
Some hotels have been moving the sink and shower into the bedroom and enclosing the toilet in glass or placing it in cubby-like space, which helps make the room look more spacious, Hanson said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
In fact, it later puffs up sideways and transforms into what looks like a huge cosmic watermelon, enclosing everything close by.
From Space Scoop ● Nov. 28, 2025
The answer was to place him in a so-called iron lung - a metal cylinder enclosing his body up to his neck.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2024
The boy needs to spend more and more time studying, each night enclosing himself in the silence permitted and required by intense concentration.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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