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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

Among appetizers, thin crunchy discs of kohlrabi sculpturally enfold an excellent tuna tartare flavored with soy sauce, sesame oil and an inspired purée of beetroot and peanut butter.

From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2018

Even when he is teasing me, I feel the sound of our home language enfold us like a mother’s warm arms.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

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

From BBC ● May 25, 2024

Her recipes capture the flavors; the stories she enfolds around them evoke the richness of a lost universe.

From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2021

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

What singles Billi out, though, is the aura of loss and loneliness that enfolds her, even before she hears of her grandmother’s illness, and credit for that must go to Awkwafina.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 12, 2019

And my cousin the goddess enfolds me completely in a hug, making me feel like a doll again.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

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

Tucker Carlson burst through the doors of Charlie Palmer Steak, enfolded in an entourage of producers and assistants, cellphone pressed to his ear.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 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

We stay like that, enfolded in each other’s arms, for a minute or two, and it feels like the universe is reorganizing itself, and I know any anger we felt has disappeared.

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart

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

“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

So all around her the water and the sun, like a bubble, and arms, like water but not water, more solid than water, enfolding her.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder