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
The lower photograph shows a later stage of progress, the blocks being undercut and nearly ready to turn over and incase the under side.
From Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections by Osborn, Henry Fairfield
The incased enrollment in medical schools during the past few years will help to relieve the shortage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then he must sing it all over again while she beat the time with her long, slender foot, incased in a black-silk slipper of her own making.
From Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
Sitting sideways to the window, bending slightly forward, her small foot, incased in a low-quarter shoe, protruded slightly from her black silk skirt.
From Overshadowed A Novel by Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert)
Accompanying the officer, she went to the room in which the body lay, incased in a metallic coffin which Mrs. Lawton had procured.
From The Spy of the Rebellion Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army during the Late Rebellion, by Pinkerton, Allan
Maschenka had taken no further notice that the hands which had caressed her were incased in cleaned gloves.
From Boris Lensky by Schubin, Ossip
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 Winslow, Kenelm
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
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 Holt, Rosa Belle
There was an entirely new hauteur incasing Miss Kirk, who upon her entrance wound into an attitude.
From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie
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 Roe, Edward Payson
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