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wrap

[rap] / ræp /
NOUN
clothing that is worn over for warmth
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"As we wrap up the mission, we are finally able to start thinking about the new avenues of research opened by this demonstration."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

He also doesn’t need to be wrapped in bubble wrap, but ideally he’d ramp up for the anchor leg instead of sprinting for the full marathon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

Then you wrap that together with Daphna’s work that says, “Here’s what we’ve done before,” and Ilyse’s work that says, “Here’s what people want to build.”

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

The movie, out in select US theaters, begins in 1932 in Granada, amidst the tensions that ultimately led to the Spanish Civil War before winding through history to wrap up in 2017 in modern-day Madrid.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

Mrs. Branson was waving her arms in the air, a snot-oozing Sabrina wriggling in a baby wrap against her chest.

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

They had filmed their “VisionQuest” scenes together four months before their run on the West End production of “Clarkston” last year but had to keep it under wraps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

It said zoo keepers intentionally kept the news of the arrivals under wraps for a few weeks to give the "delicate family complete peace and quiet".

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

I’ll serve them over pasta and vegetables, chop them into Caesar wraps or turn them into absolutely gorgeous fried chicken sandwiches.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

In September, executives announced what they said would be the company’s biggest menu upgrade ever, with new chicken sandwiches, wings and wraps, hand-breaded chicken, fresher coffee and larger burgers.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

British officials put out the word that the huge, strangely shaped objects, kept under wraps beneath tarpaulins, were special water carriers—mobile tanks.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

It was the first conviction under Macau's National Security Law, enacted in 2009 and toughened in 2023, and followed a trial that wrapped up in three days behind closed doors.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

The gown’s sudden reappearance is a marvel wrapped in a mystery, she noted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Skiing in your later decades is a gift that comes wrapped with risks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

All this is wrapped up in one great line: “It’s not the same without growing old together. Without that, love is just heartbreak.”

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

“She brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.”

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

A clean white towel is wrapt round it, whatever the viands may be; and if soup forms a part, it is sure to be sent in a smart-coloured cup, with a cover.

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

A strange calm folded its enshadowing wings around those busy brows and wrapt the imperious monarch in a sweet and childlike slumber.

From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Louisa Morgan

His trivialities were reading and penmanship, and he was so wrapt up in them that often he could hardly be got away to his meals.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade

He was too wrapt in the boy and his object to think soberly of anything else.

From Starvecrow Farm by Stanley J. Weyman

The five-term senator said the categories of products receiving exemptions include corrugated paper cartons, plastic boxes, plastic bags, refrigeration and freezing equipment, packing and wrapping machinery, and seaweed and algae products.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

When Yankovic spoke to us, he was wrapping up his Bigger & Weirder tour, which spanned two years and included 165 concerts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Fifield was wrapping up a high-profile prosecution of a retired Navy admiral who traded a government contract for a future job.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

Great waves of warmth, as from a fire blazing in a cozy hearth, flow from the stage in the musical “Buena Vista Social Club,” wrapping the audience in a cocoon of musical bliss.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Mom opens the wrapping paper with a clean rip.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day


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