enveloping

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The new wing was designed by Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas with Cooper Robertson, and has the geometric look of angular mesh enveloping an open stair case, elevator shafts and display spaces.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

Their voices soared, cracked with grief, enveloping those gathered in a wave of pure emotion.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2025

Ms. Mumenthaler has constructed her character study with subtly expressionistic imagination, deploying an enveloping, finely tuned sound design and finding a transporting musical motif in Holst’s “The Planets.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

The smell was almost exactly the same — sweet, sharp, buttery — only bigger, more enveloping, as if her tray of sliders had expanded into an entire planet of dough.

From Salon • Sep. 30, 2025

Lily squealed and clapped before enveloping Cat in a warm hug.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn