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cocoon

verb as in protect with covering

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Yet by keeping them at arm’s length, Schumer and Jeffries have stoked anger in their own backyard, where some constituents describe them as cocooned by Washington’s donor class.

Just like butterflies grow inside a cocoon, planets form inside the cozy belly of protoplanetary discs.

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“I don’t evolve, I cocoon,” Wednesday says of herself at one point.

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Look, I think that when you’re getting yourself out of a hole, you’re doing a bit of that healing in a cocoon, around your friends and alone in your house and with your family.

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Princess, a senior Chihuahua, rests with her eyes closed and body curled into a tight cocoon, as a frenetic hamster named Ponby stands upright, his eyes bulging.

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