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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Mary is the director at the hospital where the Holmes Clinic is housed, and Chestnut and Aytes have fantastic chemistry despite their characters’ differing patient care tactics.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
26 Jan. 2025 -
Zheng was ordered held without bail by a judge, but the Department of Correction would not say where he is being housed.—
Ellen Moynihan,
New York Daily News,
26 Jan. 2025
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His 14 wins tied former Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger for the most victories by a rookie quarterback, including the postseason, in NFL history.—
Greg Rosenstein,
NBC News,
7 Feb. 2025
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Exceptions include active duty members of the military, the U.S. Postal Service, workers described by OPM as being in immigration enforcement, public safety and national security, and select other positions.—
Roxana Popescu,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Feb. 2025
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And the Shoah wasn’t confined to one out-of-the-way place named Oświęcim, such that bystanders didn’t know what was happening.—
Martin Kimel,
Baltimore Sun,
26 Jan. 2025
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No longer confined by the strictures of consistency and predictability, the riders will have the chance to try the wildest tricks their minds can conceive.—
Jenn Nelson,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Among these is a nasty little microbe encased in a Vulcan exoskeleton, histrionically played by Sven Ruygrok with an inexplicable Irish accent.—
Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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After he was awarded with his old high school jersey that was encased in a glass frame, Nelson gave a lengthy speech to both Vallejo’s and St. Mary’s varsity teams.—
Nathan Canilao,
The Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Mew (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mew%20%28up%29. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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