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cooped (up)

verb

past tense of coop (up)

as in housed

to close or shut in by or as if by barriers restless kids cooped up in the house on a rainy day

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The Sacramento Homeless Union, a local of the California Homeless Union, represents 4,600 homeless, formerly homeless and marginally-housed people in the Sacramento area, the suit said.

— Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 16 July 2026
The burn took place at Rocket Lab's Archimedes Test Complex, housed at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.

— Josh Dinner, Space.com, 15 July 2026

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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.

— CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 6 July 2026
In subsequent messages included in charging documents, Robinson referenced engraving bullets and leaving his rifle wrapped in a towel.

— Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 6 July 2026

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While more than 1 million Rohingya have fled across the border to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, where they are mostly confined to overcrowded and squalid camps, roughly 630,000 still live in Rakhine, according to Human Rights Watch.

— Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
The breakthrough is currently confined to precision laboratory settings.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 July 2026

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The three-level boat’s main deck and lower deck were both enclosed, according to Toczko.

— Paris Barraza, USA Today, 17 July 2026
Snow rooms, enclosed caverns of ice and snow, sometimes incorporating gently falling flakes, are the latest at-home flex for some of the world’s wealthiest, according to the New York Times.

— Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 15 July 2026

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Lillard slept in the iron lung cylinder that encased her body as the air pressure in the chamber forced air in and out of her lungs.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
Lillard slept in the iron lung cylinder that encased her body as the air pressure in the chamber forced air in and out of her lungs.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 July 2026

Definition of encased

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While no official cause of death has been released and no charges have been made in Wells’ case, his death sparked racial tensions and widespread scrutiny after photos showed Wells surrounded by White friends while on the trip.

— Holly Yan, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
Like its rooms, all three restaurants face the ocean; don’t miss dinner at the Ocean Grill, where you’ll be surrounded by three walls of 30-foot-tall floor-to-ceiling windows.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2026

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