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
Older taxidermy specimens are frequently displayed, experts say, with museums taking precautions like using special vacuums to clean them or to encase them in glass.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 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
Evelyn put on that stubbornness with which she could encase herself as in armor; nowhere could Sylvia find a crack or a crevice through which her words might pierce the obdurate and naughty little heart.
From A Very Naughty Girl by L. T. Meade
“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
When a caterpillar finally encases itself into a pupa, it doesn’t just grow wings and emerge as a butterfly.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2023
Four cables, attached to tracks on the buildings, break through the stones, dragging up the net that encases Mitchell.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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
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
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
Its FlexFactor bra has an underwire that is encased in fabric to make it more cushioned against the skin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
When I was sufficiently encased, Javi pinned the boutonniere to my lapel, straightened my collar, and then stood back.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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
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
I feel fur, inside and out, encasing me.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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