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 simple plan of the trapper to incase the cabin with ice was easily divined.
From The Last of the Plainsmen by Zane Grey
The incased enrollment in medical schools during the past few years will help to relieve the shortage.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hand was incased in a glove of wrought gold covered with precious stones, among which was a large diamond of unusual value.
From The Story of Malta by Maturin Murray Ballou
Moreover, this stupendous, invulnerable shell incased and jealously protected a second structure equally strong and grisly, for as Lem looked, he noted this other structure occupying the center of the arcade.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
Often only the upper half of the body is incased in steel, the slender legs playing the dandy in puffed trousers of striped velvet—scarlet, green, and buff—silk hose, and satin slippers.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
She had camped on another trunk, swinging one little foot incased within a red slipper, ten feet of the faded rug between them.
From The Salamander by Owen Johnson
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
On her shining curls perched a big white satin bow, while incasing each foot, and completing the whole, was a dainty, soft kid shoe.
From The Biography of a Prairie Girl by Eleanor Gates
Towards the centre of the room stood her piano, an instrument of finest tone, whose incasing you would not be likely to admire or observe.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 by Various
There was an entirely new hauteur incasing Miss Kirk, who upon her entrance wound into an attitude.
From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst
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 Kenelm Winslow
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