cocoon

This jacket does that too, it’s like a big cocoon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Using modelling simulations, they determined the most likely scenario was that the object is powered by a central black hole surrounded by a cocoon of gas that makes it resemble a star.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

"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

She made a bubble and hardened the bubble into a cocoon around the girl—adding bright threads winding around and around.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

"Over time, small improvements in hygiene, feeding practices, and environmental control began to compound into better survival rates and higher-quality cocoons."

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

Or the part where we emerge from our cocoons and ask each other, in mock-amazement, whether this is really who we are.

From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2026

Silk comforts and cocoons, so light it practically hovers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2024

Addressing this issue, recent research has been published by researchers focusing on a hemostatic agent derived from mussels and silkworm cocoons.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2024

My old nests were woven of leaves and sticks and shaped like his bathtub, cool green cocoons.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate

In the Premier League, are we largely cocooned from much of the controversy in the other top European leagues?

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

What’s more, when cocooned in that basket, the injured skier isn’t peering down over the edge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026

The smell of fields being burned in preparation for the next crop cycle filtered in and I’d lie cocooned in itchy blankets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025

But car bloat’s most obvious and urgent downside may be the danger it presents to anyone on the street who isn’t cocooned inside a gigantic vehicle.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2024

The baby had been tucked in a cardboard box, wearing several sets of clothing and cocooned in blankets against the January cold.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

"Covid was very tough. I ended up cocooning because I was afraid of getting sick, afraid of nearly dying I suppose," he explained.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

In the cocooning fluidity of an ocean-borne day, rendered with thick-brushed painterliness and splashes of sound, we travel across flashes of community, injustice, achievement, love and despair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

Something that understood the rhythm of a slow morning, thick socks, a fogged-up kitchen, the whole mood of wintertime cocooning.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025

The idea that cocooning may be harmful is completely new information to most patients Gormally meets.

From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2024

I think about the dense woods cocooning the property, with the meandering, secret paths we made ourselves with wheelbarrows full of mulch.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy