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

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.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2024

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

These eggs hatch there, and the brood subsist on the glue until they have arrived so far toward maturity as to enable them to encase themselves in a silken shroud; and then they move onward.

From A Manual or an Easy Method of Managing Bees by Weeks, John M. (John Moseley)