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
Farewell, old heart! thy body doth incase The noblest spirit soldier e'er could boast, To face grim death withal.
From The Surrender of Calais A Play, in Three Acts by George Colman
The incased enrollment in medical schools during the past few years will help to relieve the shortage.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
His small feet were incased in neat half-moroccos, and his head protected by the regulation derby of that year.
From Sons and Fathers by Harry Stillwell Edwards
"These, aunt," said Agnes, putting out her little foot incased in leather, with a sole of very respectable thickness.
From The Widow Barnaby Vol. II (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
Evidently he was ready to ride, for leather chaps incased his legs.
From The Ranchman by Charles Alden Seltzer
There was an entirely new hauteur incasing Miss Kirk, who upon her entrance wound into an attitude.
From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst
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
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
These early experimenters found the greatest difficulty in incasing their wires in rubber, practical methods of working that substance being then unknown.
From Masters of Space Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty by Walter Kellogg Towers
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
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