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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

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

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 3, 2026

For patients, concierge medicine offers a cocoon from mounting pressures on the medical system.

From Barron's Nov. 12, 2025

A silk moth after emerging from its cocoon.

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

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

From producing silkworm eggs to supplying larvae and rearing cocoons, Asho Farms has integrated the latest technology.

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

Haney said his proposal not only would allow small business owners to diversify their income stream, but also would encourage people to come out of their post-pandemic cocoons and socialize again.

From Los Angeles Times May 24, 2024

My old nests were woven of leaves and sticks and shaped like his bathtub, cool green cocoons.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate

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

In the Premier League, are we largely cocooned from much of the controversy in the other top European leagues?

From BBC Feb. 18, 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 kids moved easily among the sisters’ houses cocooned in the warmth of a large extended family.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

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

He also suggested government advisers were too quick to dismiss policies which, he argued, would have better protected the elderly and vulnerable by "cocooning" carers and other family members with whom they might have contact.

From BBC Oct. 16, 2023

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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