as in housed
to close or shut in by or as if by barriers
fear of the outside world can encase a person just as surely as stone walls
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Recent Examples of encased
There is nothing better on a chilly evening than creamy chicken and vegetables encased in a buttery, extra flaky crust.
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Nellah Bailey McGough, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
And yet, welcoming that idea can shock the system because our popular conception of the American Revolution is so often encased in bloodless, gallant myth.
—Sarah Botstein, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
But Leo, encased in Charlie’s jacket and rocked by the movement of the boat, was unperturbed and quickly fell into a deep sleep.
—Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025
That specimen formed the basis of the new reconstruction, which used cutting-edge CT scanning, light imaging and virtual techniques to separate the bones from the rock matrix that encased them, and to correct the distortions inherent in the fossil.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
In an airy second-floor room featuring one of Warhol’s massive dollar-sign paintings and a double-decker Koons made of vacuum cleaners encased in acrylic, Boone runs into LGD gallerist Brett Gorvy.
—Carrie Battan, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
According to Lorenzen, Moon Bound will be encased with other objects in a resin pyramid attached to a lunar rover that will travel the moon's surface.
—David Chiu, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2025
Each composition is built from the background to the foreground to create the illusion of a three-dimensional figure or scene encased within the glass block.
—Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Fingerprints, dust, and scratches torpedoed early designs that envisioned users removing the discs from sleeves as casually as record albums; instead, the final version kept the discs encased in a plastic shell that was then inserted into the player.
—Allison Marsh, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Sep. 2025
Nellah Bailey McGough, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
And yet, welcoming that idea can shock the system because our popular conception of the American Revolution is so often encased in bloodless, gallant myth.
—Sarah Botstein, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
But Leo, encased in Charlie’s jacket and rocked by the movement of the boat, was unperturbed and quickly fell into a deep sleep.
—Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025
That specimen formed the basis of the new reconstruction, which used cutting-edge CT scanning, light imaging and virtual techniques to separate the bones from the rock matrix that encased them, and to correct the distortions inherent in the fossil.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
In an airy second-floor room featuring one of Warhol’s massive dollar-sign paintings and a double-decker Koons made of vacuum cleaners encased in acrylic, Boone runs into LGD gallerist Brett Gorvy.
—Carrie Battan, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
According to Lorenzen, Moon Bound will be encased with other objects in a resin pyramid attached to a lunar rover that will travel the moon's surface.
—David Chiu, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2025
Each composition is built from the background to the foreground to create the illusion of a three-dimensional figure or scene encased within the glass block.
—Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Fingerprints, dust, and scratches torpedoed early designs that envisioned users removing the discs from sleeves as casually as record albums; instead, the final version kept the discs encased in a plastic shell that was then inserted into the player.
—Allison Marsh, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for encased
Verb
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The bar is housed in a building dating back to the 1800s and has a reputation for being haunted by former workers.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Oct. 2025
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An Air Control squadron and Air National Guard squadron are also housed at the base.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
11 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The tree produces an annual fall harvest of walnuts, enclosed in a green husk that darkens when ripe.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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The team enclosed films of P6LAHB, P13LAHB, PHBV (a biodegradable PHB derivative), and PLA in mesh containers and left them on the seafloor.—
Tejasri Gururaj,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Picture yourself in an old observatory on a crisp, starry autumn night—bronze instruments glinting in the dim light, surrounded by aged leather and parchment maps.—
Michael Stefanov,
Robb Report,
14 Oct. 2025
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The duo stands at the center of a giant LED arena surrounded by a hundred opponents.—
Ed Meza,
Variety,
14 Oct. 2025
Verb
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After the second inning, nine of Kirby’s final 15 hitters reached base, a stretch that included the homers by Giménez, Springer and Guerrero.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Readers of Karp’s letters are likely to encounter a cast of characters that has included Saint Augustine, Richard Nixon, French author Michel Houellebecq, and Samuel Huntington (a 20th century Harvard political scientist).—
Jessica Mathews,
Fortune,
16 Oct. 2025
Verb
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In the show, which Lincoln Hiatt and Andrew Golder created, contestants are confined to isolation pods with no sense of day or night, no human contact and no alliances – somewhat against the grain of the current spate of guessing game formats that require contestants to form pacts.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
12 Oct. 2025
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In Portland, anti-ICE protests have taken place nearly daily since June, largely confined to a block outside the ICE facility, about two miles south of downtown.—
Jo Yurcaba,
NBC news,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Encased.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encased. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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