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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

People working for AI companies are so busy and unfocused on traditional markers of wealth, many have yet to fully embrace the fruits of that labor.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

It was the kind of unabashedly earnest moment that could easily have tipped into awkwardness, but many in the room seemed to embrace it.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2026

Then it’s all raining down on us as we embrace one another and dance like maniacs.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

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

In literary circles, Boyagoda is often referred to as a Catholic novelist, a description he embraces.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

Season 2, now streaming on Hulu, embraces one of the sitcom’s most enduring tropes: the “will-they, won’t-they” romance.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 31, 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

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

I would have put on music and embraced the mild chaos of learning a new technique.

From Salon Sep. 14, 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

Michelsen, 22, who was competing in his first Grand Slam quarter-final, was in tears as the pair embraced after a match which lasted four hours and 38 minutes.

From BBC Sep. 9, 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

At one point of his life he embraced atheism, although not for long.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

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

From Science Daily Sep. 9, 2026

Lütke said in a post on X in April that his memo a year earlier on embracing AI was evident in the company’s products and how fast they were moving.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 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

She rose from her stool and lifted me to my feet, embracing me with a surprising strength.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein




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