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George’s cluckingly affectionate aunt wants to enfold Hedda in a tradition that would consign her to the role of wife and mother.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026

Little did I know this decision would nearly get me arrested, set me on a path across two coasts, instigate community programming, and enfold kindred spirits near and far.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2023

When you see the power of love and people reaching out from their own pain, how that can really surround you and enfold you and help you.

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2023

At one point Ms. Price recalls being entombed when the pyramid that was supposed to enfold her at the end of a scene got stuck in rehearsal.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2017

Dany closed her eyes and let the smell and the warmth enfold her.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Cynthia puts her hands out to clasp mine and then enfolds me in her arms.

From BBC ● May 25, 2024

In the early scenes of Mamie and Emmett together in Chicago, you notice the luminous, painterly ambiance in which Chukwu enfolds her characters and the actors playing them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2022

The coinage enfolds this book’s argument: Too many immigrants are being locked up like criminals, and no one — not even criminals — should be treated this way.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2020

What singles Billi out, though, is the aura of loss and loneliness that enfolds her, even before she hears of her grandmother’s illness, and credit for that must go to Awkwafina.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 12, 2019

The cell feels the virus sticking to it and enfolds the virus and drags it inside.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

One wishes the film better enfolded Indigenous culture within the narrative: While we do see a few hints, what’s given is not enough.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

That restless motion is enfolded in swelling string-section chords, going nowhere in particular yet not staying still.

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2022

He set them down on the tiled floor, opened the door of one, reached inside with a dark towel, and enfolded what was inside.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 8, 2022

The late essayist Christopher Hitchens once referred to the novel as “a love story enfolded in a bildungsroman and wrapped in a conspiracy theory” — using a $10 word for a coming-of-age tale.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2022

There were evening dresses here, I caught the shimmer of silver over the top of the white bags that enfolded them.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Essential to a wilderness is its capacity to bewilder, and though certain of Church’s colleagues in the Hudson River group, notably Worthington Whittredge, brilliantly captured this dense, enfolding quality, Church seldom did.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

At her coronation 70 years ago, beamed around the world in black and white, Elizabeth’s youthful visage and slender form made for a poignant counterpoint to the centuries-old regalia and ritual enfolding her.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2023

Amid their taut geometries are passages of enfolding softness and effulgent color harmonies — rich reds, pale yellows and blues against his favorite milky lime green.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2019

“Lodge 49” gets to its story eventually, enfolding real estate, surfing and the arcane secrets of alchemy.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2018

The words “Throw it all away” pierced through the enfolding layers of incomprehension to the quick of the Delta’s consciousness.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley