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
She had camped on another trunk, swinging one little foot incased within a red slipper, ten feet of the faded rug between them.
From The Salamander by Johnson, Owen
Virtue is a precious gem though incased in a rough casket.”
From Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir by Garvice, Charles
The old unapproachable manner instantly incased him as if in remembrance of something that hurt.
From The Wayfarers by Cutting, Mary Stewart Doubleday
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)
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
Towards the centre of the room stood her piano, an instrument of finest tone, whose incasing you would not be likely to admire or observe.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 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 White, Andrew Dickson
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
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 Winslow, Kenelm
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