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
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Before she fell asleep, she tucked the alethiometer under the pillow, just incase.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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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
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