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embrace

[em-breys] / ɛmˈbreɪs /


NOUN
hug
Synonyms


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

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

What is it that you channel to embrace these powerful roles?

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

They believe in a higher power or spiritual force, but don’t typically embrace a more personalized belief that the God of the Bible determines the course of their lives and is active in human affairs.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

But personally, Calvert has continued to embrace the president.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

Why would his own parents not want him to embrace his heritage?’

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

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

It recedes into the past for comfort and illumination, then embraces the present, where Laferte is hailed as a trendsetter.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Her strong arms seemed made to gather them in warm embraces, her broad shoulders to carry them.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

While some actors might want to distance themselves from the role that made them famous, Felton has embraced his connection to Harry Potter.

From BBC Sep. 12, 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

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

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

The atomists embraced the concept of the infinite vacuum—infinity and zero wrapped into one.

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

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

But with Mr. Dudamel embracing it anew on the quarter-century anniversary of the events that prompted its creation, the composer is once more pondering this harrowing work and its painful genesis.

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

There is absolutely nothing abnormal or surprising about a severely stigmatized group embracing their stigma.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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