as in housed
to close or shut in by or as if by barriers
a village hemmed in on all sides by mountains
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The bar is housed in a building dating back to the 1800s and has a reputation for being haunted by former workers.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Oct. 2025 -
An Air Control squadron and Air National Guard squadron are also housed at the base.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
11 Oct. 2025
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After the second inning, nine of Kirby’s final 15 hitters reached base, a stretch that included the homers by Giménez, Springer and Guerrero.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Readers of Karp’s letters are likely to encounter a cast of characters that has included Saint Augustine, Richard Nixon, French author Michel Houellebecq, and Samuel Huntington (a 20th century Harvard political scientist).—
Jessica Mathews,
Fortune,
16 Oct. 2025
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The tree produces an annual fall harvest of walnuts, enclosed in a green husk that darkens when ripe.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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The team enclosed films of P6LAHB, P13LAHB, PHBV (a biodegradable PHB derivative), and PLA in mesh containers and left them on the seafloor.—
Tejasri Gururaj,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Oct. 2025
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There is nothing better on a chilly evening than creamy chicken and vegetables encased in a buttery, extra flaky crust.—
Nellah Bailey McGough,
Southern Living,
13 Oct. 2025
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And yet, welcoming that idea can shock the system because our popular conception of the American Revolution is so often encased in bloodless, gallant myth.—
Sarah Botstein,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
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In the show, which Lincoln Hiatt and Andrew Golder created, contestants are confined to isolation pods with no sense of day or night, no human contact and no alliances – somewhat against the grain of the current spate of guessing game formats that require contestants to form pacts.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
12 Oct. 2025
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In Portland, anti-ICE protests have taken place nearly daily since June, largely confined to a block outside the ICE facility, about two miles south of downtown.—
Jo Yurcaba,
NBC news,
9 Oct. 2025
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Picture yourself in an old observatory on a crisp, starry autumn night—bronze instruments glinting in the dim light, surrounded by aged leather and parchment maps.—
Michael Stefanov,
Robb Report,
14 Oct. 2025
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The duo stands at the center of a giant LED arena surrounded by a hundred opponents.—
Ed Meza,
Variety,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Hemmed (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hemmed%20%28in%29. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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