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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

She leads a flexible ensemble of fellow South African musicians, playing original tunes that flock and enfold around open-ended harmonic patterns, pushing deep into a haze.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2018

I let her enfold me, but my mind ticks around the sprouting idea.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

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

From BBC ● May 25, 2024

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 play, which takes place in the backyard of Joe and Kate’s Midwestern home, enfolds a domestic drama in a larger American narrative about capitalist corruption.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2019

Author and illustrator Oge Mora’s collage art enfolds her characters in warm, inviting colors.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 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

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

Tucker Carlson burst through the doors of Charlie Palmer Steak, enfolded in an entourage of producers and assistants, cellphone pressed to his ear.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2022

“Collage,” from her album “Black Acid Soul,” rides an acoustic bass vamp and modal jazz harmonies, enfolded in wind chimes and Mellotron “string” chords.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2021

But layers of Mist enfolded Hazel, twisting her sense of reality.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

But the bigger challenge is that Green is enfolding stories within stories that have an associative yet indirect connection.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025

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

What kinds of discussions did you have in the writers’ room and on set when you were enfolding this into the narrative?

From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2018

The feeling of dread passed, but the enfolding silence was broken.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien