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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Her corresponding notebook, under glass nearby, explains these diagrams in charmingly factual prose. Walker Mimms, New York Times, 15 May 2025 The ruins were preserved in place and partially visible under glass flooring. Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2025 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. 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 See All Example Sentences for under glass

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