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Enormous machines wrapped layers of carbon around 40-foot-long cylinders, producing carbon tubes that can encase burning rocket fuel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

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.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2023

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 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

Sew up tight, tie up the legs, and encase the body with strong twine, wrapped around to hold the wings to the body.

From Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book Being a Practical Treatise on the Culinary Art Adapted to the Tastes and Wants of all Classes by Clayton, H. J.

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

In the classic piece, Graham is wrapped in a garment that encases her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2023

Carefully she shapes a bit of the potato around a spoonful of cooked ground lamb, as uniformly as the white of a hard-boiled egg encases its yolk.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

The heavy-looking crate, encased in an aluminium frame, was lowered out of the lorry, in front of a select crowd including the French ambassador to the UK and the director of the British Museum.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

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

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

“The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton” is a vivid and erudite reimagining of Barton’s life encased within a present-day murder mystery that revolves around the discovery of a transcribed account of Barton’s visions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Ice coated Hazel’s window, and she wondered if the whole house was encased in it.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

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

This story has been updated to correct the name of the Denver exhibit that is chipping away at the rock encasing the T. rex fossil.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 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

I picture the sheets of black armor encasing my arms and body and legs, turning me into someone else.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu