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embrace

[em-brays] / ɛmˈbreɪs /


NOUN
hug
Synonyms


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Starbucks’ new holiday campaign is the latest to embrace handcrafted creative work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Normal protocols were suspended as supporters rushed to gather around and embrace her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

After an emotional embrace, Palii described a glimpse of life in Oleshky, although he said he had, until then, kept many of the details from his family.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

An AFP journalist saw the residents, some draped in Ukrainian flags, disembark from buses and tearfully embrace their loved ones in emotional scenes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

And, along with a warm embrace, Charlie's mother gave me a sturdy pair of canvas gloves.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

The feasts were a mix of tears and music, embraces and dancing.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

In Britain, the charismatic Todd embraces his special envoy status with verve even as he suspects he’s out of his depth.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

It incorporates some of Mr. Coleman’s structural ideas and fully embraces Sam Rivers’s ethos, which values spontaneity above all else.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Herman’s latest exhibition at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Hollywood, “California Poppies,” embraces the same logic of experimentation and assemblage found in his home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

“I’ll be back for Christmas,” Dorothy said, with a final round of embraces.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

He understood what Star Trek meant to people and embraced the community that grew around it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

He embraced and promoted the ethos of non-violent civil disobedience, helping to organise strikes, boycotts and street demonstrations.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

Not every incumbent player in derivatives markets has embraced perpetual futures.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

He said his father, a keen footballer who spent his life working at the Alcan aluminium factory in Newport, particularly embraced something that was so new to him.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Even though mathematicians knew that calculus was deeply flawed—thanks to the mathematics of zero and infinity—they quickly embraced the new mathematical tools.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

AFP saw Paliy, her mother and sister embracing Paliy's father in a circle.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

“Of thinking beyond ourselves, our immediate desires and thirst for gratification, and embracing our differences as strengths. It was a lovely illusion.”

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

And it is increasingly embracing policies aimed at easing pressures.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

It meant embracing uncertainty, discomfort, wildly unpredictable weather, and limited accommodations in remote villages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

I felt like I had stepped onto the surface of the planet Vulcan, and was finally going to master the Kolinahr discipline, embracing logic and purging myself of all emotions.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram


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