Thesaurus results for CAGING

caging

verb

present participle of cage

as in housing

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 caging None of the people involved in caging the fawn were identified, according to the release. — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2026 The type of tomato plant and whether it is supported with staking or caging factors into spacing. — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 16 June 2026 Unlike staking tomatoes, which requires hands-on maintenance to continually tie the stems to the support, caging is nearly maintenance-free. — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 May 2026 Corporations profit from caging people. — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026 Consider Stakes Consider staking or caging plants to save space, reduce disease and insect problems, and make harvesting easier. — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 29 Apr. 2026 Also, blitzing is a way of caging in Drake Maye, one of the best scramblers in the league. — Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026 Typical methods involve caging these substances within a host material. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Feb. 2026 For an adult nation that recently could not hold down reliable jobs, the suggestion of putting faith into virtual realities was comparable to caging lightning between your hands. — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026

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Des Phemmes Salvo Rizza stepped up his game with a beautiful Des Phemmes collection presented in the frescoed halls of Palazzo Turati, now housing Istituto Marangoni’s Milan campus.

— Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026
The key is housing all these AI capabilities within a singular Copilot app.

— Matthew J. Belvedere,Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026

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If youth teams practiced like the pros, confining full contact to once a week, impacts could fall by more than half, Daneshvar says.

— Alexandra Pattillo, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2026
In December 2025, non-profit Amnesty International wrote in a report that confining men in small cages exposed to the elements could constitute torture under international law.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of confining

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Little Miner’s version isn’t so much a riff as an homage, with a flour tortilla encasing queso sauce, tortilla chips, chipotle aioli, lettuce, tomato, raw onion, sour cream and a choice of proteins.

— Warren Rojas, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2026
The spigots serve as injection ports, where crews can pump grout behind the tunnel wall, with the goal of coating and encasing the entire tunnel lining under the Newtown Creek in a waterproof layer, filling any cracks along the way.

— Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 19 July 2026

Definition of encasing

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Nearby is The Birth, 2026, a ziggurat partly woven from bags of fertilizer, enclosing a film installation about the assembly of drones, shot in Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam.

— Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
Like the work of other Palestinian artists of his generation, Mansour’s paintings helped carry the dreams and testimony of his people beyond the walls enclosing Gaza and the West Bank.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of enclosing

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The privacy problem The bigger concern surrounding this tech, however, is privacy.

— Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2026
Meanwhile, bodies are starting to float in from the surrounding lakes and streams, transforming the picturesque setting into a hellscape that, when the Soviets arrive, is likely to get worse.

— Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of surrounding

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Meta also says the platform will support more than 100 immersive live sports events each year through partners including ESPN and TNT Sports.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026
Many of them, including Ned and his childhood friend and rival, Roland, are scarred by their time as youth players, haunted by memories of the sadistic coaches and cruel, competitive fathers who terrorized them both on and off the court.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026

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