cradling

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Steinfeld flaunted her pregnancy during the awards circuit earlier this year, cradling her baby bump at the red carpet for the Golden Globe Awards.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

Audience members, seated in neat rows and cradling cocktails, enthusiastically applaud.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

Sweatband cradling his brow and lion inked on his back, the 31-year-old has boldly written his own legacy.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2025

"It's nerve-racking because it feels like it's out of our hands," says Kerensa Smith, cradling her 10-month-old daughter Ottilie.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2025

This peninsula, part of the same geological formation as the Andes Mountains, reaches north from Antarctica like an outstretched arm, cradling the Weddell Sea.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong