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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

And in “The War Is Over,” a sputtering march beat and ghostly organ tones enfold a tale of crumbling defenses: “You can build your walls/Love will tear it down,” Shultz moans.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2019

In his imagination he had seen his mother running, her arms outstretched to enfold him as he stepped smiling from his sturdy little vessel.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

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

From BBC ● May 25, 2024

But “Secondary” enfolds other perspectives as it gestures toward a broader, contemporary American social landscape.

From New York Times ● May 14, 2023

A novel isn’t a play, but Akhtar, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Disgraced,” has written a book that enfolds a semifictionalized memoir of a Pakistani-American playwright into a sweeping sociopolitical synthesis of America.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2020

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

From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2019

And my cousin the goddess enfolds me completely in a hug, making me feel like a doll again.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

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

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

The guitarist stood up and enfolded her in his arms.

From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2021

I stepped from the air-conditioned compartment onto the station platform, and the motherly breath of the suburbs enfolded me.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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

Rather than denying that self-pity can be pleasurable, she reveals how that pleasure comes from enfolding oneself in imagined care.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2020

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

Shadow rolled over on the foam rubber, finding new places that hurt as he rolled, hoping that he had not woken fully and relieved to find sleep was enfolding him once more.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman