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swaddle

[swod-l] / ˈswɒd l /
VERB
swathe
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VERB
wrap
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She told police she had learnt how to wrap and swaddle babies on the job, and had had no formal training in how to put children down to sleep.

From BBC Apr. 16, 2026

“We knew absolutely nothing about child care. We needed someone to show us: This is how you change a diaper, this is how you swaddle, this is how you wash a baby’s hair,” said Zhu.

From Slate Jul. 13, 2024

Don’t use loose blankets either — swaddle or use a sleepsack instead.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2023

The word “overbundle,” meaning to swaddle a newborn too tightly, appeared for the first time in The Times yesterday.

From New York Times Feb. 27, 2023

Eva’s last child, Plum, to whom she hoped to bequeath everything, floated in a constant swaddle of love and affection, until 1917 when he went to war.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

Chasing down a comment on male-imposed expectations — and, more subtly, self-imposed ones — her macro lens swaddles everything in consumable lushness.

From Los Angeles Times May 21, 2024

The device includes a “sleep sack” that swaddles babies up to 6 months old who are not able to roll over consistently.

From Washington Times Apr. 21, 2023

There are add-ons—sleep sacks and swaddles and sheets—that only work with the Snoo.

From Slate Feb. 23, 2023

A crucial part of spinning, the researchers found, requires the spidroins to separate themselves from the watery buffer that swaddles them inside silk glands — a step that hyper-concentrates the proteins.

From New York Times Nov. 4, 2020

The puke swaddles down the pillow onto the sheet—green-gray, with flecks of orange.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

Sloth jaws and sabertooth fangs and a truly astonishing amount of ancient vertebrae — all of it will be swaddled, catalogued and crated for the next two years.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2026

Based on those, she had thought that she had been abandoned in the street, her brother swaddled on her back with their names and ages pinned to their clothes.

From Barron's Jun. 4, 2026

The Monogram Series of the Mercedes-Maybach, a sub-brand that competes with Rolls-Royce and Bentley, comes with an eye-catching logo and swaddled in Nappa leather.

From The Wall Street Journal May 2, 2026

"With Love, Meghan" is like a Calm app episode with a host swaddled in creamy neutral tones.

From Salon Mar. 5, 2025

I considered, scarcely daring to entertain the prospect, a father might hold me swaddled in his arms, and raise me to his sister’s lips.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

How familiar too is the fact that his little feet have kicked free of his swaddling, revealing 10 bare toes and the underside of one foot.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 26, 2025

Toler said she enjoyed her quiet morning swaddling the monkey and was happy it would receive the care it needs at the Oakland Zoo.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 1, 2025

"I pulled him up, I was swaddling him and I walked him up the hill."

From BBC Jan. 19, 2024

The model also urges hospitals to keep infants in dark, quiet rooms with their parents; to teach skin-to-skin bottle feeding and lactation; and to support swaddling, among other treatments.

From Seattle Times Jun. 28, 2023

Now it felt like a cocoon swaddling me.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely




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