ensphered

verb

past tense of ensphere
as in encapsulated

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  1. encapsulated
  2. surrounded
  3. encircled
  4. cocooned
Verb
  • All asbestos-containing materials will be removed or encapsulated, and any remaining asbestos material will be monitored when the buildings reopen, according to Clark.
    — Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2026
  • Ada’s overlapping cycles of initiation and desperation are intensely dramatic, but the movie’s hectic pace leaves each of them merely encapsulated in brief onscreen action or a few lines of dialogue, left undeveloped.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 27 June 2026
Definition of encapsulated
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  • The controversial issue that arose on July 8 surrounded a police interview with Robinson’s roommate and romantic partner, Lance Twiggs.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 9 July 2026
  • Recently released pictures show his coffin next arriving in Karbala, surrounded by masses of people.
    — Jamie Gray, NBC news, 9 July 2026
Definition of surrounded
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  • In the 1940s, the Queen switched rings, and began wearing a ladylike large pearl, encircled with diamonds.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 6 July 2026
  • He was encircled by his Netherlands team-mates, including substitutes, who raced to embrace him.
    — Tom Burrows, New York Times, 30 June 2026
Definition of encircled
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  • Recent ideas suggest that little red dots could be black holes cocooned in thick gas, possibly representing a completely new type of object called a black hole star, in which the tight shroud of gas emits light like a stellar atmosphere.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2026
  • Occupiers of apartments and houses had grown used to all these sounds, which, far from disturbing their sleep, cocooned it.
    — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026
Definition of cocooned
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