incase
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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
I will not venture upon the reasons which induce women to incase themselves in these coats of mail.
From Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The incased enrollment in medical schools during the past few years will help to relieve the shortage.
From Time Magazine Archive
He observed also that her hand, tightly incased in a glove, though shapely, was not at all small; and he thought that the reasons for this were the English sports--tennis, rowing, archery, and the like.
From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz
To this end it was incased with ten solid wires of the best iron, or rather, of a soft steel, like that used in the making of Whitworth's cannon.
From The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
Most of the original studding has been used as it stood, and the beams incased or hidden in the finish of the walls.
From Remodeled Farmhouses by Mary H. Northend
His bow legs were incased in a pair of linen breeches that desired to pass for white, and were very much wrinkled.
From Overshadowed A Novel by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs
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 Edward Payson Roe
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
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 Rosa Belle Holt
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
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
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