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embrace

verb as in hold tightly in one's arms

noun as in hug

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The Washington Post’s Christopher Ingraham documented research showing how Republicans were far more likely than Democrats to embrace “democratic backsliding” — a “retreat from upholding democratic norms,” as one expert put it.

This is a senior elected official in a large state, embracing the idea that what happened at the Capitol wasn’t what happened at the Capitol.

For that, you need a story, a philosophy embraced in the scented candle industry, which has been booming in the pandemic.

She cares about nothing more than getting back to where she came from, even as 2001’s Dullea is in flight, accepting his exile and even embracing it.

First Amendment devotees embraced him as “the Horatio Alger of the sexual revolution,” as a New York Times article once put it.

Is there any chance the potential 2016 hopeful will stand up to the right and embrace paid sick leave?

The question is will we see regime changes in both Hamas and Israel that embrace a lasting peace?

We happily hoist our egg nog in the air, embrace each other, and raise our out-of-tune voices in song.

For Sanders to do that, he said, “he would have to embrace a radically different form of politics.”

Wellington, New Zealand Our Oceania pick is the latest city to wholeheartedly embrace the global Brooklyn movement.

That embrace, that grin and that heart-born exclamation marked the entrance of the Pulsifer family into my life.

Covenanting, whether Personal or Social, ought to embrace present and permanent duty.

Tim seized it, but he brought his other arm around her waist and lifted her from the floor in one mighty embrace.

We will accept it gladly, Maurille, and I must embrace you because you nursed the mother of her whom I love best on earth.

Jessie felt an inclination to embrace the speaker who had quite innocently helped her out of the hole.

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On this page you'll find 170 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to embrace, such as: grasp, clasp, clinch, cling, clutch, and cradle.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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