encapsule
Americanverb (used with or without object)
Etymology
Origin of encapsule
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However, I must confess great sympathy for frustrated Women's Lib groups when an article attempting to encapsule a writer's background makes no mention that his wife is quite a person in her own right.
From Time Magazine Archive
Destroyers, carriers, airplanes and helicopters scout hundreds of miles of ocean to pull an encapsuled astronaut out of the drink or save a set of valuable instruments.
From Time Magazine Archive
At sea all hands take exquisite pains to keep the encapsuled atmosphere habitable.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here was the Watergate tragedy encapsuled in a brief telephone conversation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here is this earth, a marvellous onion, a series of encapsuled worlds, each successive foliation preserving the intimate secrets of its own irrecoverable life.
From Impressions and Comments by Ellis, Havelock
A science was encapsuled here which could speak of war and curiosity as discontent, but could say nothing definite of contentment.
From Warlord of Kor by Carr, Terry Gene
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