encapsuling

verb

present participle of encapsule
as in encysting

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  1. encapsulating
  2. surrounding
  3. cocooning
  4. encircling
Verb
  • In the 1920s the Soviet biochemist Vladimir and the French Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin developed the idea of the noosphere as being the sphere of human reason or thought encapsulating the Earth.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 27 July 2026
  • The SiriusXM-Audacy agreement is for sports and news stations around the country, encapsulating 42 in total in 29 markets.
    — Andrew Marchand, New York Times, 21 July 2026
Definition of encapsulating
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  • Additional details surrounding the circumstances of the crash or identity of the person who died was not provided.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2026
  • The Mob Museum in Las Vegas has been fielding questions and debunking misinformation surrounding the case for years, said Geoff Schumacher, the museum’s vice president of research, collections and programs.
    — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of surrounding
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  • That said, the Inn itself is so cocooning that many guests end up spending far more time on the property than originally planned.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Drivers who failed to dig out while the snow from our late-January storm was still soft are now contending with thick walls of ice cocooning their vehicles.
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 5 Feb. 2026
Definition of cocooning
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  • The zoning resolution for the Manhattanville extension explicitly forbids encircling any of the outdoor spaces with gates or fences.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Finding a planet-forming disk of gas and dust encircling all three stars in a system is very rare, and finding a disk consisting of three rings with misaligned orbits is even stranger.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of encircling
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