engulf
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The arrest is one of the biggest scandals to engulf the spy agency since its creation in the mid-1950s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Researchers have found that it also helps epithelial cells, which form continuous sealed layers throughout the body, engulf nearby dead cells.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2026
"Then there was fog, smoke, something that seemed to suddenly engulf us," Muthunathan, 46, told AFP, showing a video she recorded on her phone of a torrent surging towards her.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Set to go live to the public on Thursday, Divine has been built to tackle the issues and debates that engulf internet culture in 2026.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Alyssa bursts out of the trailer, leaping over the flames that are about to engulf it.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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A Democratic lawmaker resigned Tuesday, becoming the third member of the US House of Representatives to step down in just over a week as a wave of ethics scandals engulfs Congress.
From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026
Darkness engulfs me right before I step into a dream.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026
By soon, they mean any time before the sun engulfs us all, which will happen sometime in the next five billion years.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2025
The smoke from the farm fires engulfs Delhi every winter and hangs low in the atmosphere as wind speeds reduce during winter months.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2024
Dad goes to her, gently scratches her arms and back, then engulfs her in a hug.
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
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The collision on the narrow two-lane highway ignited a fire that engulfed the 17-passenger mid-sized commercial shuttle bus, which had a 50-year-old driver and five passengers onboard, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
The epithelial cells engulfed those droplets as well.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2026
Uttam and Sandy Shiralkar are still coming to terms with the loss of their family home in Stourbridge after it was engulfed by a wildfire in August.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
PHILADELPHIA—Ed Sheeran wasted no time in addressing the controversy that has engulfed his tour when he took the stage at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia on Saturday night.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
He couldn't imagine what it must have been like to see every building on the East Side engulfed in flames like these.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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On Tuesday evening, footage emerged showing a huge plume of smoke engulfing an oil tanker off the coast of Sochi, along the Black Sea in southern Russia.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The conflict between these characters is greater than the morality tale engulfing them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
"Parents came from all over looking for their children. That's when I saw a huge fire engulfing our school built of wooden planks," he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
A parallel panic is also engulfing the Pentagon, where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his loyalists are scrambling to contain a massive internal leak.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
“I thought, last year, that I loved you—but that was as a zephyr to a gale, compared to this engulfing, enveloping worship of now,” she wrote.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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