Thesaurus results for CAGING

caging

verb

present participle of cage

as in housing

to close or shut in by or as if by barriers caged the rabbit at night so she wouldn't wake everyone up

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Recent Examples of caging None of the people involved in caging the fawn were identified, according to the release. — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2026 The type of tomato plant and whether it is supported with staking or caging factors into spacing. — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 16 June 2026 Unlike staking tomatoes, which requires hands-on maintenance to continually tie the stems to the support, caging is nearly maintenance-free. — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 May 2026 Corporations profit from caging people. — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026 Consider Stakes Consider staking or caging plants to save space, reduce disease and insect problems, and make harvesting easier. — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 29 Apr. 2026 Also, blitzing is a way of caging in Drake Maye, one of the best scramblers in the league. — Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026 Typical methods involve caging these substances within a host material. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Feb. 2026 For an adult nation that recently could not hold down reliable jobs, the suggestion of putting faith into virtual realities was comparable to caging lightning between your hands. — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026

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Verb

But data centers – massive physical facilities housing the computer infrastructure needed by big tech companies for artificial intelligence, the internet and other programs – are now a political flashpoint fueled by a public backlash.

— Chris Brennan, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026
Leaders say the new hub was designed to make those services easier to access by housing them in one location.

— Hannah McIlree, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of housing

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The judge will then determine whether the dogs should be legally designated as dangerous, which could result in strict requirements for confining the dogs or even in dogs being euthanized.

— Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
For much of our history, few options existed between mass institutionalization in expensive and confining facilities on one end of the spectrum, and fully independent living absent any supports on the other end of the spectrum.

— Barbara Merrill, Time, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of confining

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Little Miner’s version isn’t so much a riff as an homage, with a flour tortilla encasing queso sauce, tortilla chips, chipotle aioli, lettuce, tomato, raw onion, sour cream and a choice of proteins.

— Warren Rojas, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2026
The spigots serve as injection ports, where crews can pump grout behind the tunnel wall, with the goal of coating and encasing the entire tunnel lining under the Newtown Creek in a waterproof layer, filling any cracks along the way.

— Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 19 July 2026

Definition of encasing

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Like the work of other Palestinian artists of his generation, Mansour’s paintings helped carry the dreams and testimony of his people beyond the walls enclosing Gaza and the West Bank.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Homes can be visually inspected for compliance from the outside, and enclosing the ground level area for living space after the home is constructed and approved for occupancy would draw a reverse work order.

— Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of enclosing

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The market is attempting to judge how long high capital expenditures and elevated valuations surrounding AI can be sustained.

— , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
So surrounding Antetokounmpo with shooting was the smart strategy, because the data suggests offenses play at well above-average levels when the two-time MVP is paired with elite shooting.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of surrounding

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But his record of publicly interacting with Piker — including at a pool party just before the primary — remains a sore point among some Michigan Democrats.

— Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 27 Aug. 2026
The fair will bring together galleries from 63 cities in 36 countries, including 36 galleries (around 43 percent) with locations in the SWANA region.

— Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 27 Aug. 2026

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