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encase

[en-kays] / ɛnˈkeɪs /


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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

As one way to stop the thefts, Metro is working to encase its copper wires in concrete.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2023

But the company agreed in 2018 with Whitmer’s predecessor, Republican Rick Snyder, to drill a tunnel that would encase a new pipeline section in concrete.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2023

Roseleaf had difficulty in maintaining the silence with which he had determined to encase himself.

From A Black Adonis by Linn Boyd Porter

“Midnight Movement” encases Monk’s best-known melody, “’Round Midnight” within a chiming, repeated figure and a gauze of natural overtones and synth tones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

Along the cliffs, a white dragon is stirring to life, its movements cracking the ice that encases it.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

Before Gary Oldman’s Dracula became a pale, bewigged count, he was Vlad the Impaler, encased in one of the most striking costumes in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 “Bram Stoker’s Dracula.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

I have, it turns out, a thing for sausage encased in dough.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

Messenger RNA technology uses synthetic molecular instructions encased in tiny fat bubbles that temporarily enter cells, causing them to produce targets that train the body’s immune system.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 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

While we wait, Ben motions to a steel door with a flashing blue light, its latch encased within a clear locked box.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

When it does bloom, the spathe — leaflike structures encasing the plant — unfurl around 3 or 4 p.m., reaching maximum size in the early hours of the morning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 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

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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