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wrap

[rap] / ræp /
NOUN
clothing that is worn over for warmth
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The streaming series, “Judy Justice,” launched shortly after in the same year and will wrap with its fourth season.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

On late night television, Jimmy Kimmel wondered aloud why we’re not taking the issue more seriously, offering the theory that, “It’s too much for us to wrap our heads around.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

The “Bad Romance” singer and 16-time Grammy winner was seen wearing a large ring and holding the child, supported by a baby wrap, tightly to her chest, according to photos published by the outlet.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2026

A hefty Moche nose ornament of gold and silver would have been quite the weight to carry from one’s septum, especially with the intricately intertwined creatures that wrap around its edge.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Now, I scooch in next to her on the beanbag chair and wrap my arms around her shoulders.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

The film was kept under wraps for years, until it was revealed at a surprise screening at Telluride Film Festival on Sunday.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

The result of a nearly three-year investigation, it is the only documentary in competition at this year's Venice Film Festival, which wraps up on Saturday.

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

For all the films Telluride has announced, the one that might generate the most chatter is still under wraps.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

Amazon also wraps its four processors in far more memory and storage.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

The sign upon the gates of Le Cirque des Rêves tonight is a large one, hung with braided ribbon that wraps around the bars just above the lock.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

He said the building was built in about 1890 and the child was wrapped in an edition of The Umpire from Sunday 19 June 1910.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

It was wrapped in a towel in a laundry basket.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

On Wednesday, the final reporter was called on 28 minutes in, and Warsh promptly wrapped up by 3 p.m.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

The construction site will be wrapped with underwater silt curtains but Leidich worries the marine lakes will be contaminated by sediment plumes.

From Barron's Sep. 16, 2026

She landed on his back like a monkey and wrapped her arms around his neck.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

While inland China was wrapt in its customary slumber, the coast provinces, from Kwangtung to Chihli, effervesced in a variety of bubbles.

From Time Magazine Archive

His boy ill, little Bertie, in whose life her very soul had seemed wrapt? and she could stand and speak of it so coldly, so calmly as this?

From It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) by Mrs. Henry Wood

He begins with Childhood—mind wrapt up in itself.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

And though like a mourner that sits by a tomb, I am wrapt in a mantle of care; Yet the grief of my bosom—oh! call it not gloom— Is not the black grief of despair.

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull

In other circumstances, as black darkness wrapt him round, Jack might have felt not a few tremors; from Samba he had learnt something of the perils of night in densely-wooded places.

From Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Herbert Strang

The court also heard police found a crossbow in the attic of his property, which was still in its wrapping.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

What are you energetically wrapping up right now?

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

NBA commissioner Adam Silver says the investigation into whether the Clippers circumvented the salary cap through an endorsement deal for Kawhi Leonard is wrapping up.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

The demonstration came as the first round of US-backed talks between Venezuela's interim government and parts of the opposition was wrapping up.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

Instead, I lean forward to inhale the scent of rotting fruit for a long moment before wrapping the scarf back around my pet pineapple.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller




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