hug

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I’d flown 35 hours to be here, playing Frogger with San Salvador traffic, dodging motorbikes, arms already open for a hug I’d been planning for years.

From Slate • Apr. 12, 2026

They then hug the Iranian coast before entering the wider Gulf of Oman.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

"We are waiting for their return to France so we can give them a big hug," Anne-Laure Paris, Jacques Paris's daughter, told AFP.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

By Thursday they boarded a plane in Guadalajara, and Uribe gave them a big hug when they walked through the front door of her home in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

“What’s in it for me?” he whispered back, his arms wrapping around me in what was probably the most awkward and weird hug of my life as he kept up the bizarre charade.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin