encase
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Steel ribs encase the viewer, giving one the feeling of being in an upturned ship, as a soundtrack that ranges from gospel singing to mechanical clicks plays in the background.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
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
Russell Murphy, Lime’s communications director, said the company uses the best available waterproofing technology to encase its batteries.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2023
As The Times reported in May on the growing number of assaults against Metro bus drivers, the agency is attempting to curtail such incidents by installing floor-to-ceiling plastic walls that fully encase the driver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
Her patient fairly off her hands, Mona seemed to encase herself with a cold reserve, as in a shell.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram
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
He entered the field of biological membranes: the outer layer of fats, called lipids, that encases the trillions of cells in the body, separating the watery outside from the inside.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 2022
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
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
By day, it bubbles in a giant stainless-steel pot about 5 feet across and one foot deep, encased in lava-like concrete and heated by gas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
His courtside seat at basketball team Toronto Raptors' stadium was recently decorated with icicles and, last month, a giant pile of ice blocks appeared in the city with the album's release date encased inside.
From BBC ● May 15, 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
On the table there are a couple of books, a stack of pamphlets, and some clipped-out magazine articles encased in plastic.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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
Rather than shutting the pipeline, Enbridge has proposed encasing the pipes in a protective tunnel.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
As the bones were carefully freed from the encasing rock, experts were surprised to find scraps of the dinosaur’s last meal.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 8, 2023
My hands fumble over the thick bandages encasing my ribs and I wonder what I’m still doing here.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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