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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

These cagelike metal coils encircle participants’ heads as they lie on their sides with their legs touching in the MRI magnet and gaze at each other through a window.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 9, 2020

A cagelike structure of solidified water traps methane within it.

From Scientific American • Aug. 1, 2017

In many ways, the mines provide easy access to the depths — a ride in a cagelike elevator, jammed against miners starting their shift, descending quickly as lights from the different levels zip past.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2016

The whole of this upper cagelike work looks compact and tidy, and at the first glance is admired by strangers as being alike novel, ingenious, and neat.

From Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by Turner, George