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
For Frances was very tactful, and if she governed with a rod of iron, she was clever enough to incase it well in silk.
From Frances Kane's Fortune by L. T. Meade
The incased enrollment in medical schools during the past few years will help to relieve the shortage.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Virtue is a precious gem though incased in a rough casket.”
From Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir by Charles Garvice
Instantly Suyettar was again a hideous old hag though still dressed in Kerttu’s pretty bodice and skirt, and Kerttu was herself again, young and fresh and sweet, though still incased in Suyettar’s rags.
From Mighty Mikko A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Parker Fillmore
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
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
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
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
There was an entirely new hauteur incasing Miss Kirk, who upon her entrance wound into an attitude.
From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst
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
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