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At the high end, Design Within Reach offers a solar-powered teak light called the Ambient Ray Lantern that sends a glow through its cagelike structure and is $2,215.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 11, 2024

They believe nitrogen atoms might be wriggling in between lutetium atoms, forming a cagelike structure that stiffens the rest of the lattice.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 8, 2023

A cagelike structure of solidified water traps methane within it.

From Scientific American • Aug. 1, 2017

Where there used to be a simple fountain there is now a square, cagelike pier that appears to be covered in some sort of screening and lighted from within by pink lights.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2017

Presently he saw the landing grid near the biggest city—that half-mile-high, cagelike wall of intricately braced steel girders.

From The Hate Disease by Leinster, Murray