Sample Sentences for
encapsulate
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encapsulate as in:  encapsulate the medication

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    Scientists encapsulate the bacteria in gel beads for laboratory storage.
    encapsulate = seal up in a small, self-contained form
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    Nature tends to compensate for diseases, to remove or encapsulate them, to incorporate them into the system in her own way.  (source)
    encapsulate = enclose or wall off
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    The blueprint lit up a rubber band wrapped around a series of gears, encapsulated by a metal cover—something called a timing belt.  (source)
    encapsulated = enclosed
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    I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become.  (source)
    encapsulated = neatly contained and preserved (sealed up in a small, self-contained form)
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    Encapsulate is also one of Jody's words.  (source)
    Encapsulate = to contain within itself
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    Plus it encapsulates the word our.  (source)
    encapsulates = contains within itself
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    If one object behind her discovery of what she was to label the Tristero System or often only The Tristero (as if it might be something's secret title) were to bring to an end her encapsulation in her tower, then that night's infidelity with Metzger would logically be the starting point for it; logically.  (source)
    encapsulation = enclosure and isolation
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    Imagine the sand of the Mohaine Desert, which you crossed to find me, and imagine a trillion universes-not worlds but universes-encapsulated in each grain of that desert; and within each universe an infinity of others.  (source)
    encapsulated = enclosed
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    If someone had been able to encapsulate the kindness of these second graders in pill form, the pills would undoubtedly put many war correspondents out of business.  (source)
    encapsulate = enclose in a capsule
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    And Trudy and Edgar, encapsulated in mourning, somehow forgot to care for one another, let alone her.  (source)
    encapsulated = sealed off
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    The huge boulders surrounding the area were especially colorful, with varying hues of red and orange, and they were encapsulated in a thin layer of ice that caught the fire of the sun and reflected brilliant bursts of sparkling colors in startling contrast to the dull gray of the misted glacier ice.  (source)
    encapsulated = enclosed
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    "You're talking about one-point-one square miles of encapsulated southern ideologies," Feltz said of her town.  (source)
    encapsulated = packed into a small, self-contained area
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    All it does is remind me of sharing this small, encapsulated place with the person I love, the one who's supposed to love me, but doesn't call.  (source)
    encapsulated = closed-in and self-contained
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encapsulate as in:  encapsulate the idea

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    I buried my face and made some screechy sound that encapsulated my complete humiliation.  (source)
    encapsulated = illustrated
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    It was sad and beautiful and encapsulated what little I knew about their relationship.  (source)
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    The Nationalist slogan encapsulated their mission: "Eie yolk, eie taal, eie land"—Our own people, our own language, our own land.  (source)
    encapsulated = puts in concise form
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    The poem was by Rudyard Kipling, and it so neatly encapsulated the rules by which werewolves lived, the Law that bound their actions, that he wondered if Kipling hadn't been a Downworlder himself, or at least known about the Accords.  (source)
    encapsulated = put in a concise form
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    One incident sticks out in Scipio's mind as encapsulating the problems he found between refugees and his officers.  (source)
    encapsulating = illustrating (capturing in one example)
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    He had encapsulated it; made a permanent, fixed Idea out of it; had converted it to a rigid, immobile Immortal Truth.  (source)
    encapsulated = packaged and sealed
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    To Feltz and many others in Clarkston, the housing plan encapsulated everything that was wrong with the way refugee resettlement was being handled in their town.  (source)
    encapsulated = illustrated (captured in one example)
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    The sheer density of information and misinformation at the End, encapsulated in news articles and message-board theories and clickbait traps that had propagated hysterically through retweets and shares, had effectively rendered us more ignorant, more helpless, more innocent in our stupidity.  (source)
    encapsulated = summed up (put in concise form)
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