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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
They enfold the subject just so, like a halter on a horse’s face.
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2020
They collide, enfold, lose their balance, and slam against a wall, where they stay.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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
The album ends with “Here You Are,” a cozy, floating, gradually gathering vamp that enfolds a grim summation: “We’re out of time/Believe the worst.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2018
The cell feels the virus sticking to it and enfolds the virus and drags it inside.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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
The late essayist Christopher Hitchens once referred to the novel as “a love story enfolded in a bildungsroman and wrapped in a conspiracy theory” — using a $10 word for a coming-of-age tale.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2022
Norma Desmond watching movies of herself, hour after hour, shrouded in her mansion on Sunset Boulevard as “the dream she had clung to so desperately enfolded her.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2020
He touched his top pocket where the poem she sent was enfolded in her letter.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
But the bigger challenge is that Green is enfolding stories within stories that have an associative yet indirect connection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025
You are met with a soothing electronic soundscape enfolding Parker’s understated, post-Grant Green guitar.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
Amid their taut geometries are passages of enfolding softness and effulgent color harmonies — rich reds, pale yellows and blues against his favorite milky lime green.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2019
The scent of Christmas Night was enfolding me now and I saw her face draw closer, her eyes widening.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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Vocabulary from Readings 3, Unit 1
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