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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2023

Fill the space left by the small mold with the material to be used, leaving a space on top to cover with jelly—to encase it.

From The Century Cook Book by Ronald, Mary