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enclose

[en-klohz] / ɛnˈkloʊz /


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When you enclose the stadium, you’re removing a variable that has shaped the game for a century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

They requested China enclose this section inside the embassy's security perimeter.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025

The contractor asked if they wanted to move the washer and dryer to a different space in the home or enclose them to hide them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2024

Their capsule-like shape can enclose and protect mRNA, which provides instructions for cells to manufacture proteins.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024

When Mammachi decided to enclose the back verandah, it was Velutha who designed and built the sliding-folding door that later became all the rage in Ayemenem.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

But it had no lights of its own, so the volunteers used the LED lights and glow sticks to attach homemade Dodgers-themed signage to the fence that encloses the bridge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

Mr. Nesbø encloses “Wolf Hour,” translated from the Norwegian by Robert Ferguson, in a clever conceptual envelope: The book is being written years later by a Norwegian cousin of Bob’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

This process, discovered by Nobel laureate Yoshinori Ohsumi in 2016, encloses the accumulation within a lipid membrane similar to a cell membrane.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2025

In the same envelope, Vincent encloses his own letter.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

The system includes an electronic controller enclosed in a 3D-printed housing.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 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 why Araujo’s perch on the club level behind home plate is exposed to the crowd rather than enclosed, like the booths to his right used by the radio and TV broadcasters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

She stops at a drawing of a round, windowless room illuminated only by light that filters through the koi pond enclosed in glass above it.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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

Survey work has been conducted over the last two decades but researchers believed critical questions about "the date, development and function of both the enclosing elements and the internal settlement remain unanswered".

From BBC ● Jan. 1, 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

Her husband, French Wilson, had found a job at the Central Leaf Tobacco factory and had sent for her and the baby, enclosing a one-way bus ticket along with his letter.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson


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