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embrace

[em-breys] / ɛmˈbreɪs /


NOUN
hug
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Sooner or later we must stop believing in fairy tales and repeated broken promises, and embrace reality again.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

He added: "You can be stuck anywhere for years and years but there's nothing like your mind. Embrace your mind and embrace your thoughts."

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

My sexuality doesn’t obligate me to embrace a particular ideology or to reject the moral inheritance of the society that made my life possible.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

The embrace of many of these models inside a system that can help orchestrate their use is the preferred route from many of the vendors.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

As Ophie picked her way out of the woods she saw them in the yard; the pastor and his wife were standing near their big car, holding Ophie’s mama in a comforting embrace.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland