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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the cool grape leaves that encase the rice like gift wrapping are fork tender.
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He was encased in a great deal of expensive burgundy metal, and his car was coming right at me.
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In some forms, the whole of the head and body was encased in a cuirass of bony plates.
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It's encased in concrete and steel and will stay in place for tens of years.
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The iron lung encased Virginia in a vacuum.
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To protect power station workers from this invisible threat the reactor core has to be encased behind many metres of thick concrete.