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The team therefore added an active, accreting black hole to its simulations of the dense hydrogen cocoon.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

Using modelling simulations, they determined the most likely scenario was that the object is powered by a central black hole surrounded by a cocoon of gas that makes it resemble a star.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

The company lays the deceased in a coffin-like container it calls a cocoon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

Then in Spring, each forms a cocoon before emerging as an adult butterfly to lay its own eggs.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025

It looked like the fish was wrapped tightly in a salt cocoon.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

"Over time, small improvements in hygiene, feeding practices, and environmental control began to compound into better survival rates and higher-quality cocoons."

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

Or the part where we emerge from our cocoons and ask each other, in mock-amazement, whether this is really who we are.

From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2026

Haney said his proposal not only would allow small business owners to diversify their income stream, but also would encourage people to come out of their post-pandemic cocoons and socialize again.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2024

As we emerge ever further from our wintertime cocoons, blinking and scraggly as post-hibernation bears, let’s load up our “good reasons to leave the house” lists with everything from frothy musicals to thoughtful family stories.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024

It was like seeing glaciers calving, or moths bursting out of their cocoons.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

What’s more, when cocooned in that basket, the injured skier isn’t peering down over the edge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026

The smell of fields being burned in preparation for the next crop cycle filtered in and I’d lie cocooned in itchy blankets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025

But car bloat’s most obvious and urgent downside may be the danger it presents to anyone on the street who isn’t cocooned inside a gigantic vehicle.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2024

The chip, cocooned within a vacuum chamber and cooled nearly to absolute zero, is patterned with 198 gold electrodes, arranged like an oval racetrack.

From Science Magazine ● May 30, 2024

The windshield is fogged and the night is dark, and in Jack’s hard-domed little Saturn she feels cocooned, protected.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

In the cocooning fluidity of an ocean-borne day, rendered with thick-brushed painterliness and splashes of sound, we travel across flashes of community, injustice, achievement, love and despair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

Something that understood the rhythm of a slow morning, thick socks, a fogged-up kitchen, the whole mood of wintertime cocooning.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025

The idea that cocooning may be harmful is completely new information to most patients Gormally meets.

From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2024

He also suggested government advisers were too quick to dismiss policies which, he argued, would have better protected the elderly and vulnerable by "cocooning" carers and other family members with whom they might have contact.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2023

I think about the dense woods cocooning the property, with the meandering, secret paths we made ourselves with wheelbarrows full of mulch.

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