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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

In his imagination he had seen his mother running, her arms outstretched to enfold him as he stepped smiling from his sturdy little vessel.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

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

From BBC ● May 25, 2024

But “Secondary” enfolds other perspectives as it gestures toward a broader, contemporary American social landscape.

From New York Times ● May 14, 2023

The coinage enfolds this book’s argument: Too many immigrants are being locked up like criminals, and no one — not even criminals — should be treated this way.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2020

The play, which takes place in the backyard of Joe and Kate’s Midwestern home, enfolds a domestic drama in a larger American narrative about capitalist corruption.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2019

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

That restless motion is enfolded in swelling string-section chords, going nowhere in particular yet not staying still.

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 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

And when at last I opened my eyes the silence which had enfolded me had given place to a pervasive murmur, the sound from the suppliant lips and beseeching throats of the multitude.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

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