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George’s cluckingly affectionate aunt wants to enfold Hedda in a tradition that would consign her to the role of wife and mother.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026

Little did I know this decision would nearly get me arrested, set me on a path across two coasts, instigate community programming, and enfold kindred spirits near and far.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2023

When you see the power of love and people reaching out from their own pain, how that can really surround you and enfold you and help you.

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2023

Fortunately, one of Ozeki’s gifts as a novelist is the ability to enfold provocative intellectual material within a human story grounded in sharply observed social detail.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2021

Dany closed her eyes and let the smell and the warmth enfold her.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Cynthia puts her hands out to clasp mine and then enfolds me in her arms.

From BBC ● May 25, 2024

In the early scenes of Mamie and Emmett together in Chicago, you notice the luminous, painterly ambiance in which Chukwu enfolds her characters and the actors playing them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2022

Author and illustrator Oge Mora’s collage art enfolds her characters in warm, inviting colors.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2019

It enfolds warring families and shifting alliances, but in a setting where everyone is packed close and prying eyes and whispers are inescapable.

From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2018

But Mama’s sweetness enfolds him and coaxes him back.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Its serene opening was “Journey in Satchidananda,” a modal meditation with the flute and saxophones of Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp enfolded in her cascading harp arpeggios.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2024

They are individual and odd, enfolded in a natural world Harding depicts with the same unsentimental reverence he employed in his Pulitzer Prize-winning debut, “Tinkers.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 24, 2023

One wishes the film better enfolded Indigenous culture within the narrative: While we do see a few hints, what’s given is not enough.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

He set them down on the tiled floor, opened the door of one, reached inside with a dark towel, and enfolded what was inside.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 8, 2022

But layers of Mist enfolded Hazel, twisting her sense of reality.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Essential to a wilderness is its capacity to bewilder, and though certain of Church’s colleagues in the Hudson River group, notably Worthington Whittredge, brilliantly captured this dense, enfolding quality, Church seldom did.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

And it’s this grace that swirls like a ghost through “Past Lives,” enfolding all three central characters and investing their stories, or what little we see of those stories, with a rare and harmonious balance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

“He has the gift of enfolding the stories of people from many different backgrounds into his work.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2021

Rather than denying that self-pity can be pleasurable, she reveals how that pleasure comes from enfolding oneself in imagined care.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2020

He embraces me, enfolding me in the smell of blood and roses, and plants a puffy kiss on my cheek.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins