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
They open the infected pupa's cocoon, create small cuts in its outer surface, and apply formic acid, a natural antimicrobial compound produced by the workers themselves.
From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2025
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
We have entered the safest cocoon our affections can make, and we lie there, and we luxuriate in the wealth of the moment, and gently fall into each other, fall into sleep.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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