incase
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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He should have appointed a family member he could trust to be his probate executor, and have had someone else appointed incase that first person died.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2014
Please note I said "average" incase you bring up some instance of one individual's racist remarks.
From Economist ● Nov. 26, 2013
"We wrap it inside a sweatband so that incase it leaks, the fluid will not get all over the bike or on James" More energy drink madness!
From Time Magazine Archive
Before she fell asleep, she tucked the alethiometer under the pillow, just incase.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
The simple plan of the trapper to incase the cabin with ice was easily divined.
From The Last of the Plainsmen by Zane Grey
The incased enrollment in medical schools during the past few years will help to relieve the shortage.
From Time Magazine Archive
The old unapproachable manner instantly incased him as if in remembrance of something that hurt.
From The Wayfarers by Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting
She had camped on another trunk, swinging one little foot incased within a red slipper, ten feet of the faded rug between them.
From The Salamander by Owen Johnson
It seemed like a little island incased in that great sea of trees.
From Lost in the Jungle Narrated for Young People by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu
Moreover, this stupendous, invulnerable shell incased and jealously protected a second structure equally strong and grisly, for as Lem looked, he noted this other structure occupying the center of the arcade.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
Smith patented a method of preserving timber, by incasing it in vitrified earthenware pipes, and filling the space between the timber and the pipe with a grouting of hydraulic cement.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 by Various
These early experimenters found the greatest difficulty in incasing their wires in rubber, practical methods of working that substance being then unknown.
From Masters of Space Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty by Walter Kellogg Towers
It consists of strapping the joint by means of long, narrow strips of adhesive plaster incasing it immovably in the normal position.
From The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) by Kenelm Winslow
While the others were incasing themselves in exclusive pride, she was eager to investigate and get en rapport with this new phase of humanity.
From From Jest to Earnest by Edward Payson Roe
There was an entirely new hauteur incasing Miss Kirk, who upon her entrance wound into an attitude.
From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst
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