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
In the first place, an elaborately embroidered bodice must be made to incase Siegfrid's charming figure as if in a coat of enamel.
From Ticket No. "9672" by Laura E. Kendall
The incased enrollment in medical schools during the past few years will help to relieve the shortage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Virtue is a precious gem though incased in a rough casket.”
From Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir by Charles Garvice
Then he must sing it all over again while she beat the time with her long, slender foot, incased in a black-silk slipper of her own making.
From Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches by Constance Fenimore Woolson
She must have fallen through the snow which covered our water-hole, for she was literally incased in ice up to the breasts.
From A Man in the Open by Roger Pocock
It seemed like a little island incased in that great sea of trees.
From Lost in the Jungle Narrated for Young People by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu
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
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
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
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
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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