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
It is like the covering which the Creator has thrown around the human frame, not to disguise its emptiness, but to incase its energies, and to ease and beautify its action.
From Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors by Various
The incased enrollment in medical schools during the past few years will help to relieve the shortage.
From Time Magazine Archive
The "Cemeteries" are oval, and from six to ten feet high, filled with bones, lying east and west, and when incased in sarcophagi, the rows run in the same direction.
From The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe by John Russell Bartlett
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
The old unapproachable manner instantly incased him as if in remembrance of something that hurt.
From The Wayfarers by Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting
A curved sword, with a hilt thickly studded with large jewels and incased in gold, hangs at his belt.
From Contemporary One-Act Plays by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
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
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
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
There was an entirely new hauteur incasing Miss Kirk, who upon her entrance wound into an attitude.
From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst
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