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cocoon

[kuh-koon] / kəˈkun /
VERB
protect with covering
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The team therefore added an active, accreting black hole to its simulations of the dense hydrogen cocoon.

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

Gigi Hadid walking the outdoor runway in a black feather cocoon was a visual delight, with all looks showcasing flowing designs in a variety of textures and colours.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

Rolling off the bed in a silicon sleep cocoon, Grace gradually evolves from a wriggling larval stage into a fully upright, walking and talking smarty-pants.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 18, 2026

The company lays the deceased in a coffin-like container it calls a cocoon.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 3, 2026

I stayed where I was, huddled into my blanket like a cocoon.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

It involves feeding mulberry leaves to silkworms, harvesting their cocoons and extracting the silk fibres.

From BBC Apr. 23, 2026

At the time, he and his colleagues found wasp cocoons mixed in with fossil material.

From Science Daily Apr. 3, 2026

Or the part where we emerge from our cocoons and ask each other, in mock-amazement, whether this is really who we are.

From Salon Jan. 3, 2026

Silk comforts and cocoons, so light it practically hovers.

From Los Angeles Times May 7, 2024

How exactly did the caterpillars change inside their cocoons?

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

We first see her slouched on a sofa on the back porch of the family’s house, seemingly cocooned in unhappiness.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 2026

I’m lying on a heated massage bed, cocooned in a soft, weighted blanket, as Kayla Faraji caresses my cheeks with billowy, pink goose feathers.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 2, 2026

But car bloat’s most obvious and urgent downside may be the danger it presents to anyone on the street who isn’t cocooned inside a gigantic vehicle.

From Slate Oct. 2, 2024

The chip, cocooned within a vacuum chamber and cooled nearly to absolute zero, is patterned with 198 gold electrodes, arranged like an oval racetrack.

From Science Magazine May 30, 2024

Suddenly I was cocooned in silent, blissful darkness, with only the whisper of distant waves to remind me where I was.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

"Covid was very tough. I ended up cocooning because I was afraid of getting sick, afraid of nearly dying I suppose," he explained.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

In the cocooning fluidity of an ocean-borne day, rendered with thick-brushed painterliness and splashes of sound, we travel across flashes of community, injustice, achievement, love and despair.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 20, 2026

Something that understood the rhythm of a slow morning, thick socks, a fogged-up kitchen, the whole mood of wintertime cocooning.

From Salon Dec. 16, 2025

The idea that cocooning may be harmful is completely new information to most patients Gormally meets.

From Slate Mar. 17, 2024

I think about the dense woods cocooning the property, with the meandering, secret paths we made ourselves with wheelbarrows full of mulch.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy




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