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embrace

[em-breys] / ɛmˈbreɪs /


NOUN
hug
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He joked he planned to "force" Sam to embrace Welsh culture.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

At Harvard’s reunion festivities in June, President Alan Garber sat for a Q&A, posed for a class photo and told alumni of the university’s efforts to embrace “sincere and rigorous debate.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

Everyone’s enthusiasm feels revelatory: We’re watching kids embrace their sense of play and a gray-haired woman who understood the need to keep that exuberance going like a well-tended flame.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

Whether the Lucas Museum upends the art world may depend less on whether other museums adopt its philosophy than on whether audiences embrace the connections it attempts to draw.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

Hugging the knight's knees, he said, "I embrace the knees of the most famous of all knights, Don Quixote de la Mancha, fighter of evil and savior of the unfortunate."

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

Dostoevsky follows the narrator over four nights and a morning during which he ceases living in his imagination and embraces reality for the first time.

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

These videos depict a fun-loving land that welcomes foreigners and embraces friends at 250 years old despite all the advertised assaults on its social fabric.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

Ultimately, they conclude, finding a new constitutional meaning that actually embraces the public’s true understanding of the document requires returning to our old understanding.

From Slate Aug. 10, 2026

Syd’s new album happily embraces a sense of maturity — of “feeling more sure of myself than I ever have,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

My hand strokes Mom’s arm; the other embraces Dad’s back.

From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

While we in the United States have never lived up to our ideals, we’ve always embraced the idea of progress.

From Salon Sep. 11, 2026

Saint-Maximin embraced that responsibility after quickly striking up a bond with Newcastle supporters following his move from Nice.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

Bonino met a leading women's rights advocate, embraced civil disobedience and began accompanying women to a Florentine abortion clinic.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

New York City’s critics and tastemakers, who had steadily pilloried the World Trade Center, not only embraced Windows on the World—they anointed it.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

I sat between my father and Miig, who had embraced, as they made introductions between their respective groups.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

The New York Times noted that Mackie tried and failed to gain acceptance for his designs "from the frosty corridors of high fashion," but Mackie said he had no regrets for embracing glitz.

From Barron's Sep. 14, 2026

Instead, the community became more open to the possibility without embracing it outright.

From Science Daily Sep. 9, 2026

Lütke said in a post on X in April that his memo a year earlier on embracing AI was evident in the company’s products and how fast they were moving.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

The extensively engineered retaining wall and thoughtful landscaping transformed the property into a series of expansive outdoor living spaces designed for entertaining, decompressing, and fully embracing the indoor-outdoor lifestyle.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

Inside, they are embracing, his arms enveloping her, the child between them.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins




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