embrace
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Florida’s embrace of the defense industry is part of a growing shift in the state’s economic identity, notably after Miami pulled back from previous efforts to position itself as the world’s crypto capital.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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
Young people embrace an ideology that goes against everything they actually believe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
It was the kind of unabashedly earnest moment that could easily have tipped into awkwardness, but many in the room seemed to embrace it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
We walked faster the closer we got to home, where the live oak trees spread their branches wide, giving cooling relief from the sun’s embrace.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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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
Even Jon Bernthal’s Punisher, an occasional ally to Spider-Man, embraces the woe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Eighth Regiment soldier Edward Pryor embraces his daughter, 1917.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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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
The Premier League does more; my friends who love Arsenal will not stop telling me about the Gay Gooners, the oldest queer supporters’ group in the sport, embraced by the club itself.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
She said reading together had enabled the school to "break down that fear of reading" and that pupils had "absolutely embraced it".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
But “Star Trek” did not shy away from political themes — it embraced them — and also featured a notably diverse cast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Finally, I felt Jay’s skinny arms around me, and Mama embraced us both.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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Instead, the community became more open to the possibility without embracing it outright.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 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
But when I think about that moment now, it seems clear that she was embracing another familiar position:
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
His remark was hyperbolic, but he’s right that areas embracing data centers are enjoying more jobs and faster wage growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Slannen gave us a new pottery piece by Agulen, an elf child embracing a tree. zhatapH and zhulpH were there, zhulpH still a toddler, since gnomes grow more slowly than humans.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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