as in housed
to close or shut in by or as if by barriers
fencing in the yard would keep our dog in as well as keep unwanted stray dogs out
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Now 57, Vogelsang has served 27 years of a 355-years-to-life sentence and is housed at Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, state records show.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
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King sits in Clay County custody, currently housed in Platte County Jail, in lieu of payment of a $2 million cash bond.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
26 Mar. 2026
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The footage showed tubes with ruptures and other damaged structures that used to be inside the pressure vessel, which originally was enclosed.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 Mar. 2026
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As a precaution, the highway leading out of Izium to the next town has also been enclosed in a corridor of netting.—
Eleanor Beardsley,
NPR,
17 Mar. 2026
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“Fenced (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fenced%20%28in%29. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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