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wrap

[rap] / ræp /
NOUN
clothing that is worn over for warmth
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"It's a timescale that's hard to wrap your head around."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Plenty of bad ones wrap up neatly too.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

The streaming series, “Judy Justice,” launched shortly after in the same year and will wrap with its fourth season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

She took to wearing a head wrap whenever she left the house.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

They wrap their arms around each other and around Eddie, too.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

Much of McDonald’s plans to capture more consumer spending focus on chicken — including new flavors of Chicken McNuggets, new chicken sandwiches, wings and wraps, and hand-breaded chicken.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

As the third quarter wraps up, one indicator shows dividend cuts are on the rise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The snails are covered by a 'glutinous' mantle - a layer of translucent tissue that wraps around the shell from beneath.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

For all the films Telluride has announced, the one that might generate the most chatter is still under wraps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Isabella frowns, fists her hair together, and wraps it up into a big sloppy bun.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée

After the rally wrapped up, some activists set up a protest camp in city centre's Plaze de Sol square, the union said in a statement, urging people to gather there.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Inside, they discovered several phones strewn around the back seat, with others on the floor wrapped in foil.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

All three indexes wrapped up the week higher, despite a midweek selloff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The ingredients—lumpen husbands; wives that look like overripe supermodels; enough Spandex for Christo to have wrapped the Cooperstown Hall of Fame—are all predictably and obviously engineered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

She wrapped her daughter in an embrace, and whatever unsettling thought she’d had seemed to be chased off.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

While inland China was wrapt in its customary slumber, the coast provinces, from Kwangtung to Chihli, effervesced in a variety of bubbles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oh! gracious Power! for thy beloved approach The expecting earth lay wrapt in kindling smiles, Struggling with tears, and often overcome.

From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by John Lyde Wilson

Jeremiah, a magnificent figure, sits with elbow on knee, and head on hand, wrapt in the meditation appropriate to one called to utter lamentation and woe.

From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare

He was so wrapt up in his task, as to stay from school.

From Curiosities of Human Nature by Anonymous

It broke out in the shipping in the harbour, and was supposed to have been brought ashore in a blanket, which had been wrapt round a person who had fallen a victim to it.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous

As they clutch their phones in plastic wrapping, the group patiently waits for what they hope will be a voyage to a better life in the UK.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

What are you energetically wrapping up right now?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Having left Spotify in 2024 to launch his own company, Alt, Kalia now starts most days at 5:30 or 6 a.m., wrapping up around 9 or 10 p.m.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

The demonstration came as the first round of US-backed talks between Venezuela's interim government and parts of the opposition was wrapping up.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

Issue #2: As it turns out, this whole egg drop thing is more than just wrapping up an egg in pillows.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller




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