cocoon
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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
Then in Spring, each forms a cocoon before emerging as an adult butterfly to lay its own eggs.
From BBC • Nov. 30, 2025
They are either having a very good time — with much laughter and banter, and perhaps a tear or two when a butterfly emerges from the cocoon — or else they are excellent actors.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2025
I still would have had a little place inside me to go, a place I could wrap myself in like the cocoon a caterpillar makes.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
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