cocoon
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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
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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
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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
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"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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