as in to encapsulate
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Saturday’s final score, 9-0 in the visitor’s favor, only partially encapsulates the degree to which New York (5-4) outplayed San Francisco (3-6) in front of a packed house that had more reasons to groan than reasons to cheer.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
5 Apr. 2026 -
Before mixing, each perlite batch was soaked in its respective solution and then coated with sodium silicate and fly ash to encapsulate the nutrients and bacteria.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Mar. 2026
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Make like a cat and cocoon yourself in the Gubi F300 chair.—
Kate McGregor,
Architectural Digest,
31 Mar. 2026
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In the video, the dachshund is shown completely wrapped inside the sleeve of a dressing gown, his long and short body tightly cocooned as his owner frantically but gently rolls the fabric to release him.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
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Video showed police forming a barrier between plainclothes ICE officers and surrounding crowds.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
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One skeleton estimated at 10,000–12,000 years old was surrounded by evidence of bonfires, possibly indicating funerary rituals involving light.—
Ryan Brennan
April 4,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
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On the Base — the area above the sheer cliffs that encircle Tristan and below Queen Mary’s Peak — a group herds sheep down from the mountain.—
NPR,
NPR,
4 Apr. 2026
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Some people lamented on social media the empty spaces around a pond that used to be seamlessly encircled by flowering pink blossoms.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Encyst.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encyst. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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