incase
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
She would incase Kedzie in a sheath of soft, white kid marked with delicate lines and set off with black gloves and a hat of green leaves.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
The incased enrollment in medical schools during the past few years will help to relieve the shortage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thirty miles of wire, incased in a strong coating of gutta percha, have been imbedded, as far as this could possibly be done, in the bottom of the channel, by means of leaden weights.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
Her graceful legs were bare, but her little feet were incased in neat, cow-hide moccasins with the hair on, laced and thonged about her round ankles.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
His bow legs were incased in a pair of linen breeches that desired to pass for white, and were very much wrinkled.
From Overshadowed A Novel by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs
It should then be trimmed and incased in aspic, using the same or a slightly larger bread-tin of the same shape.
From The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald
The hook is a frequent design, and may be found in the field, incasing some geometrical figure.
From Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique & Modern A Handbook for Ready Reference by Rosa Belle Holt
Having done this, they found the pipe incasing the wires, acknowledged his triumph, and immediately gave him and his machine permanent employment.
From Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 by Andrew Dickson White
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
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
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
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