cocoon
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The simulations suggested that the red source could contain an extremely powerful energy source hidden inside a very dense cocoon of hydrogen.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 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
Gigi Hadid walking the outdoor runway in a black feather cocoon was a visual delight, with all looks showcasing flowing designs in a variety of textures and colours.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
The company lays the deceased in a coffin-like container it calls a cocoon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
She wrapped us in her arms, her pink robe like a cocoon for us to feel safe in.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
It involves feeding mulberry leaves to silkworms, harvesting their cocoons and extracting the silk fibres.
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
As we emerge ever further from our wintertime cocoons, blinking and scraggly as post-hibernation bears, let’s load up our “good reasons to leave the house” lists with everything from frothy musicals to thoughtful family stories.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
This may result, according to laboratory tests, in destruction of 75 to 98 per cent of the cocoons present.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
I’m lying on a heated massage bed, cocooned in a soft, weighted blanket, as Kayla Faraji caresses my cheeks with billowy, pink goose feathers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2026
Ms. Rizer begins in a peasant shift of woven jute and ends, after seven layers and 154 pounds of increasing Tolstoyan grandeur, cocooned in a wintry mantle of taupe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 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 chip, cocooned within a vacuum chamber and cooled nearly to absolute zero, is patterned with 198 gold electrodes, arranged like an oval racetrack.
From Science Magazine ● May 30, 2024
Pita squirmed miserably beside me like a cocooned butterfly trying to break free.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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
He also suggested government advisers were too quick to dismiss policies which, he argued, would have better protected the elderly and vulnerable by "cocooning" carers and other family members with whom they might have contact.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2023
Now I know why I’ve been subconsciously cocooning myself in that vacuum of numbness.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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