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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
encage .
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Examples
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Sadia Rai, a ‘dogmatic painter’ displayed a canvas, mostly painted in black, and on the focal point where a female figure, painted in vivid red paint was shown encaged in a white ice-like cube.
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They ran, tottering like elderly little men on walkers, their legs stiff from a life encaged.
Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010
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They ran, tottering like elderly little men on walkers, their legs stiff from a life encaged.
Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010
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They do not know they have encaged their own masculine beauty, their own passionate soul.
We Are In This Place For A Reason Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2008
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Although we tend to imagine the Renaissance humanists to be encaged in a closed universe, awaiting the liberating flights of Columbus and Copernicus, Federico da Montefeltro's rise from military captain (with questionable birthright) to duke offers an example of the capacity, through shrewd diplomacy, to seduce fortuna and intervene in one's own fate.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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They do not know they have encaged their own masculine beauty, their own passionate soul.
Archive 2008-11-01 Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2008
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People in Gaza were at the end of their rope 18 months before, when their most basic needs were cut off and they were encaged, left to waste away and fight amongst themselves.
A Gift to Israel 2009
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And all year long, theObama DOJ fought (unsuccessfully) to keep encaged at Guantanamo a man whom Bush officials had tortured while knowing he was innocent.
A historian's account of Democrats and Bush-era war crimes 2009
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Sadia Rai, a ‘dogmatic painter’ displayed a canvas, mostly painted in black, and on the focal point where a female figure, painted in vivid red paint was shown encaged in a white ice-like cube.
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