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noun

ˈkā-siŋ

Definition of casing

as in sheath

something that encloses another thing especially to protect it the egg of this bird has an unusually hard casing

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verb

present participle of case

as in enclosing

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Recent Examples of casing

Noun

Per the initial information, someone shot back from inside the park, and officers later found two sets of shell casings in the park and across the street, including rifle casings. — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026 The documents detail a sprawling crime scene filled with bullet holes and littered with shell casings recovered from around the church, the neighboring playground and as far away as the walls and gutters of houses in the surrounding neighborhood. — ABC News, 27 Aug. 2026 Police matched shell casings from the San Francisco shooting to the Brazell homicide scene, according to court records. — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2026 Officers found around a dozen shell casings in the home’s living room. — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 24 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for casing

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Noun

Alcaraz is coming back from tenosynovitis, an injury in which fluid accumulates in the sheath that protects a key tendon in the wrist.

— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
The tang had a tendency to work loose, and the sheath would often be less than secure, letting the knife fall out during a parachute drop.

— David Szondy August 30, New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of sheath

Verb

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

Verb

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

Noun

The front office threw every asset imaginable at a defensive line capable of coming in waves and covering warts.

— Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Sanctuary Alliance Lawrence shared another photo with five agents, at least three of them wearing black face coverings.

— Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of covering

Verb

There are many thousands of national parks around the world, so the trickiest part is narrowing down the list—but these 17, spanning six continents and encompassing an extraordinary range of scenery, are a good place to start.

— Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2026
More than half of the reservoirs technically compatible with gas-injection flooding sit within Texas and the broader Gulf Coast region, encompassing onshore basins and offshore fields.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of encompassing

Noun

Lamb said the store had been selling everything from shotgun shells to rifle cartridges.

— Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Sep. 2026
However, Ujiié cautioned against assuming any simple relationship between a species’ genetic identity and its shell chirality.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of shell

Verb

The pairing won over many icons of both music and film, from Cher’s vibrant style to Olivia Newton-John’s form-fitting looks to Princess Diana’s timeless approach.

— Elise Fabre, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2026
However, the extraordinary part is putting it all together, delivering 100 MW net, fitting the system aboard a movable ship, and doing it for $587 million.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026

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