Thesaurus results for ENCASING

encasing

verb

present participle of encase

as in housing

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 encasing 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 The denim du jour is all about giving your legs some room to breathe instead of encasing them in snug fabric. — Tanya Sharma, InStyle, 10 July 2026 Even still, most of its diminutive size was just plastic packaging, encasing the far tinier, unfathomably dense network of billions of transistors embedded in silicon. — Literary Hub, 17 June 2026 The 360-degree curved glass walls encasing the galleries offered many glimpses of a face that belonged to me but somehow wasn’t mine. — Stephanie Shih june 17, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026 The concrete cap of a tomb encasing radioactive fallout now has cracks, and what’s beneath can rise from the dead. — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 31 Mar. 2026 The crunchy encasing pairs perfectly with the melty cheese and various fillings inside, including cheese, tinga, potato and chorizo, and raja (strips of peppers and onions). — Carolyn Burt, Oc Register, 26 Feb. 2026 Pill pockets, like this top option by Greenies, mask the sight and smell of a pill by encasing it in a treat. — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026 Natural thawing eliminates damage caused by trying to remove ice encasing stems of perennials and shrubs. — Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 31 Jan. 2026

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But data centers – massive physical facilities housing the computer infrastructure needed by big tech companies for artificial intelligence, the internet and other programs – are now a political flashpoint fueled by a public backlash.

— Chris Brennan, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026
Leaders say the new hub was designed to make those services easier to access by housing them in one location.

— Hannah McIlree, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of housing

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Homes can be visually inspected for compliance from the outside, and enclosing the ground level area for living space after the home is constructed and approved for occupancy would draw a reverse work order.

— Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Soon after, more people gathered, standing behind the sad but necessary fence enclosing the resilient tree, out of respect, curiosity or simple gawking.

— David Dickstein, Oc Register, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of enclosing

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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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The judge will then determine whether the dogs should be legally designated as dangerous, which could result in strict requirements for confining the dogs or even in dogs being euthanized.

— Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
For much of our history, few options existed between mass institutionalization in expensive and confining facilities on one end of the spectrum, and fully independent living absent any supports on the other end of the spectrum.

— Barbara Merrill, Time, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of confining

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The house sells most of its Champagne in European markets, including Britain, Belgium, Italy and Spain, as well as in West Africa, with smaller volumes going to the United States and Asia, Bonnet-Gobillard said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
Hernandez was released the same day on a $50,000 personal recognizance bond with certain conditions, including not to operate any boats or vessels.

— Martin Goillandeau, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of including

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The blur outside becomes enveloping and unfathomable; the universe inside the car evolves as the friends invent tension-defusing rituals to keep from screaming at one another.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026
The backlash to the massive server warehouses is enveloping races for governor in some of the nation’s biggest states and presidential battlegrounds.

— Marc Levy, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of enveloping

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