cocoon
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The simulations suggested that the red source could contain an extremely powerful energy source hidden inside a very dense cocoon of hydrogen.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
Using modelling simulations, they determined the most likely scenario was that the object is powered by a central black hole surrounded by a cocoon of gas that makes it resemble a star.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
The company lays the deceased in a coffin-like container it calls a cocoon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
It was a place that seemed wrapped in a cocoon of nostalgia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2026
I want to disappear into the cocoon chairs.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
There, another paleontologist had shown him fossilized wasp cocoons, which are small mud chambers where developing larvae mature into adults.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
"Over time, small improvements in hygiene, feeding practices, and environmental control began to compound into better survival rates and higher-quality cocoons."
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 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
At thirty-six weeks she cocoons herself in bedsheets.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
What’s more, when cocooned in that basket, the injured skier isn’t peering down over the edge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026
The smell of fields being burned in preparation for the next crop cycle filtered in and I’d lie cocooned in itchy blankets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025
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
The kids moved easily among the sisters’ houses cocooned in the warmth of a large extended family.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
"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
Now I know why I’ve been subconsciously cocooning myself in that vacuum of numbness.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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