under glass
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: in a glass container
Most of the articles in the museum are preserved under glass.
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Now, almost 95 years later, the board is being kept under glass protection in a meeting room at the end of a hallway in the physics building of the university.
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Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2025
The Down Deep • Among the relics in Judge Meadows’s apartment: an Etch-a-Sketch, preserved under glass.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
Indigenous art appears as paintings and artifacts under glass, while natural light gently drifts throughout the home during its 300+ days of sunshine a year.
—Catherine Dunwoody, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri was on hand Thursday to open the new archaeological garden and museum and walked across the map fragments – now preserved under glass — of the famous Forma Urbis Romae.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2024
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Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2025
The Down Deep • Among the relics in Judge Meadows’s apartment: an Etch-a-Sketch, preserved under glass.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
Indigenous art appears as paintings and artifacts under glass, while natural light gently drifts throughout the home during its 300+ days of sunshine a year.
—Catherine Dunwoody, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri was on hand Thursday to open the new archaeological garden and museum and walked across the map fragments – now preserved under glass — of the famous Forma Urbis Romae.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2024
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“Under glass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/under%20glass. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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