as in coop
an enclosure with an open framework for keeping animals
the dogs and cats at the animal shelter looked so sad in their cages
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as in to house
to close or shut in by or as if by barriers
caged the rabbit at night so she wouldn't wake everyone up
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Recent Examples of cage
Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
Later the box seems like a cage, a digital trap confining the animal inhabitants of the planet.
—Karen D'souza, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2025
Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 9 Feb. 2025
Staking, trellising, and caging are different training methods used to support tomato plants and their heavy fruit loads.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2025
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Noun
Today's demonstrations show the strength of our growing movement, powered by people of all walks of life coming together to demand investments in our communities, not more cages.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
Later the box seems like a cage, a digital trap confining the animal inhabitants of the planet.
—Karen D'souza, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2025
Verb
And because they’re both caged, they’re being denied what they were made to do.
—Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 9 Feb. 2025
Staking, trellising, and caging are different training methods used to support tomato plants and their heavy fruit loads.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cage
Noun
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Topics include: chicken breeds, raising chicks, designing coops and pens, chicken health and nutrition.—
Joe Rassel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 Apr. 2025
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Hable Gallery is the brainchild of sisters Susan and Katharine Hable, Corsicana natives who flew the proverbial coop as college students.—
Rima Suqi,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The plant will be able to house up to 28 production lines.—
Amy Neff Roth,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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Set in Medieval England in the year 1348, the story alights on Lansley Abbey, a remote stone monastery in Yorkshire, which houses ten monks bound by a life of strict routine and devotion.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
2 May 2025
Noun
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At 6ft 9in (206cm), 205 pounds (93kg), and with a 7ft 1in wingspan, Flagg has the size and skill to be an NBA talent and is set to be the No 1 pick of the 2025 draft, despite being the youngest player available.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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This would put the mass of each Kuiper satellite somewhere between 1,185 and 1,259 pounds (537 and 571 kilograms).—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
3 May 2025
Verb
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On Friday, the severe weather and flash flood threats will be confined to the south-central Plains.—
Kyle Reiman,
ABC News,
1 May 2025
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Across both issues, support is now confined mainly to Republicans who identify with the MAGA movement.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 May 2025
Noun
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Security guards held up a yellow rope, establishing a sort of makeshift corral.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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Once again, there will be food trucks and a bike corral set up.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
27 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The gutters and vents are enclosed in a thin, wire mesh.—
CalMatters,
Mercury News,
30 Apr. 2025
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Though not fully enclosed (which saved on cost), it’s sheltered by a wall of ipe wood on one side and a stand of low trees and plants on the other.—
Rory Evans,
Better Homes & Gardens,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Investigators determined that was unlikely because of the proximity of the kennel to the residence and how decomposed Bane's body was, the release states.—
Grant Lancaster,
Arkansas Online,
24 Apr. 2025
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Giana Sabatino, a shelter worker at the Providence Animal Center in Pennsylvania, posted the clip of Sadie the dog looking crestfallen within the confines of a kennel.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Back at the reservation, Joe and his dad, Henry, work together to build a pen of sorts, though Henry grills Joe about who it is supposed to keep in.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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Everyone else has their starter written in pen or a pretty heavy pencil.—
Jeff Howe,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2025
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“Cage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cage. Accessed 12 May. 2025.
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