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View definitions for encase

encase

verb as in box

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verb as in cocoon

verb as in sheathe

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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.

But for all these similarities of style and effect, Phạm’s movie sways to its own hypnotic beat and, true to its title, seems to encase us in a cocoon-like structure whose contours and parameters we have to figure out for ourselves.

Portland’s brush with perilous winter weather will linger substantially longer than originally forecast after temperatures Wednesday failed to climb high enough to melt the ice and snow that continues to encase much of the metro area, the National Weather Service said.

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.

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.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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