ensconce
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The immunocompromised 69-year-old ensconces herself in her SUV for the half-hour ferry ride across Puget Sound from her home on Bainbridge Island to Seattle, where she undergoes treatment for the rare inflammatory condition sarcoidosis.
From Washington Post • May 17, 2022
Bilbrew wrote “The Death of Emmett Till,” a choral piece that immediately ensconces Till in the context of heroism.
From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2022
Yaa Gyasi, author of the award-winning “Homegoing,” ensconces the 1954 decision in Brown v.
From Washington Times • Jan. 29, 2020
In the anguished period following her mother’s death, she commutes each morning to the Wellcome Collection’s library of medical science and history, where she ensconces herself, reading at random.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 22, 2018
He, too, gets behind the chair, while Cherubino, screened by Susanna's skirts, ensconces himself in the seat, and finds cover under one of the Countess's gowns which Susanna hurriedly throws over him.
From A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Krehbiel, Henry Edward
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