cocoon

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"They are undergoing tremendous transformation, and we need to approach them as someone who is coming outside of a cocoon and becoming something different."

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

During Thanksgiving week, from the soft neutral cocoon of my parents’ guest room, I burrowed into an impulsive rewatch of the BBC “Sherlock” — yes, the Benedict Cumberbatch era, all sculptural cheekbones and good outerwear.

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2025

Princess, a senior Chihuahua, rests with her eyes closed and body curled into a tight cocoon, as a frenetic hamster named Ponby stands upright, his eyes bulging.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025

For the next several minutes we all stood there watching the butterfly emerge from its cocoon, in slow motion.

From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez