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embrace

[em-breys] / ɛmˈbreɪs /


NOUN
hug
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He joked he planned to "force" Sam to embrace Welsh culture.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

Everyone’s enthusiasm feels revelatory: We’re watching kids embrace their sense of play and a gray-haired woman who understood the need to keep that exuberance going like a well-tended flame.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

Florida’s embrace of the defense industry is part of a growing shift in the state’s economic identity, notably after Miami pulled back from previous efforts to position itself as the world’s crypto capital.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Whether the Lucas Museum upends the art world may depend less on whether other museums adopt its philosophy than on whether audiences embrace the connections it attempts to draw.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

“Mother Ashton,” she trilled, spitting out a piece of bark and extending both arms upward, as if offering an embrace.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

Dostoevsky follows the narrator over four nights and a morning during which he ceases living in his imagination and embraces reality for the first time.

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

These videos depict a fun-loving land that welcomes foreigners and embraces friends at 250 years old despite all the advertised assaults on its social fabric.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

Ultimately, they conclude, finding a new constitutional meaning that actually embraces the public’s true understanding of the document requires returning to our old understanding.

From Slate Aug. 10, 2026

Even Jon Bernthal’s Punisher, an occasional ally to Spider-Man, embraces the woe.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Breaking the silence, Tamika said, “For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world.”

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

No industrialist embraced the soybean more enthusiastically than Henry Ford.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

The fighters embraced afterwards, but while attention quickly switched to Garcia - who exchanged words with WBO champion Teofimo Lopez at ringside - Benn left the arena looking dejected.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

Bonino met a leading women's rights advocate, embraced civil disobedience and began accompanying women to a Florentine abortion clinic.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

New York City’s critics and tastemakers, who had steadily pilloried the World Trade Center, not only embraced Windows on the World—they anointed it.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

An idea embraced by Bishop Étienne Tempier in the thirteenth century and Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa in the fifteenth century could mean a death sentence in the sixteenth century.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

The New York Times noted that Mackie tried and failed to gain acceptance for his designs "from the frosty corridors of high fashion," but Mackie said he had no regrets for embracing glitz.

From Barron's Sep. 14, 2026

He discusses a theory of human morality embracing three ethics that drive human behavior: autonomy, divinity and community.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Instead, the community became more open to the possibility without embracing it outright.

From Science Daily Sep. 9, 2026

The extensively engineered retaining wall and thoughtful landscaping transformed the property into a series of expansive outdoor living spaces designed for entertaining, decompressing, and fully embracing the indoor-outdoor lifestyle.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

Across the room, enormous rock-beings are embracing as if on a dance floor, as if they’ve all frozen mid-move.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson




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