Paige VanZant

I've always been very competitive, and I've always had this desire to win my entire life. I guess when it comes to being in the cage, especially, I just hate losing more than I like to win. The idea of someone beating me just doesn't sit well.

American Athlete

Jan Blachowicz

I can always hear my fans shouting for me and I always get goosebumps walking to the cage wherever I fight. But once the cage door shuts I forget everything else around the world and I focus.

Rory MacDonald

I don't ever know the people I fight at all. I just know their name and I show up on the night, they show up, and we fight in a cage and we paid for it. That's what we like to do.

Tito Ortiz

The whole bad-boy image was for the cage, and that's it. It wasn't an act because it came from a passion for fighting.

Jessica Mendoza

In a perfect world, if I can get conversations done at a batting cage, there's exactly the place I want to be.

American Journalist

Wendi McLendon-Covey

On my keychain, I have a citrine crystal in a tiny cage. It's for protection and good vibes.

American Actress

Raphael Assuncao

When it is all said and done, everything is different once you get up into the cage.

Brazilian Athlete

William Hurt

I don't put the truth in a cage. I try to find a way to release it.

American Actor

Justin Gaethje

It's life or death for me every single time I step in the cage.

Rose Namajunas

It takes a lot of courage in that cage no matter who you are.

Use 'cage' to refer to physical enclosures with bars; specifically for confining animals.

Literal Use

A cage usually implies captivity and lack of freedom, which can evoke sympathy for caged animals.

Negative Feelings

Cages are often made of metal, but you might find wooden or plastic ones for smaller pets.

Material Notice

When you use 'cage' as a verb, it suggests forcibly restricting the movement of a living being.

Action Implies Restraint

Cage used as a verb isn't as common as other confinement verbs like 'trap' or 'enclose'.

Uncommon Verb Use

A 'cage' can symbolize any restrictive situation, not just physical imprisonment.

Metaphorical Concept

The metaphorical 'cage' is often a matter of personal feeling; others may not see it.

Subjective Perception

In sports, 'cage' usually refers to practice areas with netted or fenced enclosures.

Sports Specific

Sports terminology like 'batting cage' is mainly used in the United States.

Geographical Variation

 Imagine that you're a crow. Here's your food in a deep hole. How would you go about, with the tools available to you on this table, solving this problem? The bird's tool kit includes a short stick hanging on a piece of string, three stones inside wooden cages, and a longer stick trapped in a plastic box.

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 Thorne's girlfriend Delia's counting on him to make sure they stay stocked up on meat but he's new to trapping and still doesn't have a handle on the habits of all the wildlife in the area now I'm gonna actually make a live trap it's kind of like a primitive cage I'll have

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 but we undertook some remarkable experiments that managed us to resolve this puzzle very quickly indeed. First, we observed that not all mosquito species bite on the same part of the body. Strange. So we set up an experiment where we put a naked volunteer in a large cage,

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 and diagnosed me with selective mutism proved that my fear of talking was social anxiety and not attitude explained that I was so afraid of people that my vocal cords locked themselves in that I was not outlier but pioneer like Maya Angelou who knew quiet like a caged

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 what has to happen moving forward is we need to encourage people to take risks we need to encourage people to not be afraid of opportunities that may scare them ultimately moving forward I think we have to embrace fear we've got to put that bear in a cage

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 relatively small cage and now they come out here and it's like wow big world grass wind rain snow you know coyote in the distance so it's it's that next step their mum has been in one of these pens before and quickly gives her new

Adorable Baby Animal...

 relatively small cage and now they come out here and it's like wow big world grass wind rain snow you know kyle italian in the distance so it's it's that next step their mum has been in one of these pens

Baby Ferret Training...

 babar farm is a place that keeps large numbers of bears in very small cages and Bev our farms certainly in this part of the world don't breed animals they remove animals from the wild to extract

Saving Bears In The...

 independence and a quality of life they would never have in a cage one orangutan who probably appreciates this more than most is hercules before he was rescued hercules was kept

Incredible Orangutan...

 there's one monkey who is refusing to come out bruce he's not quite ready to head into the wild and needs a bit of encouragement to leave the safety of his cage