as in to house
to close or shut in by or as if by barriers
bored with being mewed up in a stuffy house all day
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And, in some cases, even the odd-sounding street names tie back to the city’s financial roots: Lombard Street, named for the Italian region known for its bankers and merchants, or Ironmonger Lane, which once housed the metal-trading houses.—
Justin Worland,
Time,
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Bryant is closing her store on Aug. 31, downsizing and and moving it into the Uptown Boutique store next door, which will house the two separate businesses.—
Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Aug. 2025
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These include sun, wind, and flowing water but also coal, oil, natural gas, and uranium.—
Scott Montgomery,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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One included claims that teachers, in the past, have taken said supplies and asked that they not be labeled.—
Victoria Uwumarogie,
Essence,
6 Aug. 2025
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Admittedly, the legal troubles right now would seemingly be confined to aspects of or within Illinois, since this is a state law and not a broader federal law.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Moraes ordered authorities to seize his cellphone and confine him to house arrest, limiting visits to his family and allies.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Aug. 2025
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For anyone under 35, a floppy disk is a magnetic memory strip encased in plastic that is physically inserted into a computer.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
9 Aug. 2025
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After thousands of hours of digital reconstruction, the 3D scans clearly depicted tissue-thin bones encasing organs and musculature preserved in unprecedented detail.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
6 Aug. 2025
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“Mew (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mew%20%28up%29. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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