incase
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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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 Grey, Zane
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 Ballou, Maturin Murray
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 Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert)
An indescribable despair incased him like walls of sinister darkness.
From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)
Virtue is a precious gem though incased in a rough casket.”
From Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir by Garvice, Charles
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 Towers, Walter Kellogg
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
There was an entirely new hauteur incasing Miss Kirk, who upon her entrance wound into an attitude.
From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie
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 Gates, Eleanor
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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