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encase

[en-keys] / 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

Russell Murphy, Lime’s communications director, said the company uses the best available waterproofing technology to encase its batteries.

From Seattle Times Aug. 19, 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

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

Indeed, “American Fiction’s” fervent admirers have suggested that its satire is merely the Trojan horse that encases a warm family-drama heart, but even that juxtaposition suggests just how little the individual elements really jell.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 24, 2024

Agnew and Hamilton knew from their years practicing military surgery that the human body often encases a bullet in a cyst, or sac, making it harmless.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

Azure’s results are encased somewhere in those numbers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 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

“Gondola cars encased in digital ads, flying 26 feet overhead every 25-30 seconds would irreparably impair the vista, and the sense of calm and escape from urban life,” wrote former state parks director Ruth Coleman.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

The atemoya, a hybrid of different custard apple species with creamy white flesh encased in a rough green exterior, is a specialty of Taiwan's Taitung county.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

Hazel spent the rest of the day encased in ice.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

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

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

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu




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