wrap
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The second you get comfortable in this league, it’s a wrap; it’s too good.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Binshtok, who tracks social-media sentiment, found that roughly a third of first-time visitors posting about Sweetgreen in September ordered a wrap.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Application fees will also rise 20-fold from Thursday and at one immigration office in central Tokyo visited by AFP this week hundreds of people queued, hoping to wrap up procedures before the price spike.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
You may already have hung thicker curtains and blocked the draughts over the last couple of winters, but do not forget to switch off radiators in rooms you are not using and wrap up.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
“What did you do?” said Molly as she helped Clara wrap a cord across Anat’s chest, repurposed from one of the rolls of spare carpet bundled up in the corner.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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To counter its reputation for high prices, Sweetgreen added lower-cost wraps to its menu.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Mr. Gibney wraps up his wide-ranging feature with dire thoughts: Mr. Musk’s “satellites choke the skies,” his “army of robots” could “take over the planet,” etc.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
While story details have remained under wraps, “The Batman Part II” is expected to take place after the events of the 2024 HBO series “The Penguin,” which was set after “The Batman.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
The economics prize wraps up the Nobel season on October 12.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
The skin shifts, revealing the scar that wraps around his ring finger.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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After halftime, Nantz could be seen in the booth with his hand wrapped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
She wrapped a 57-date arena tour the night before—a “titanic effort,” she told the crowd—but her energy is undimmed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Von Foerster and his co-authors’ article gained attention because it was an ordinary scientific article wrapped in an extraordinary title and conclusion.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
Before we wrapped up the call, Rodriguez paused for a moment when I asked her what Puerto Rico means to her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
I’m pretty sure it’s the feeling of my heart breaking as I allow the shield of lies that I wrapped around it, protecting it for so long, to dissolve the rest of the way away.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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While inland China was wrapt in its customary slumber, the coast provinces, from Kwangtung to Chihli, effervesced in a variety of bubbles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He was too wrapt in the boy and his object to think soberly of anything else.
From Starvecrow Farm by Stanley J. Weyman
The reason why this African cardamum received either the name of grains of Paradise or of Meleguetta pepper is, like most African things, wrapt in mystery to a certain extent.
From West African studies by Mary Henrietta Kingsley
You should know," she quietly observed, looking up from her book with a serious wrapt expression which seemed as if reflected from beyond the gates, "that the world and I have parted company.
From The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield
"I believe her whole soul is wrapt up in you, and I thank God that it is so, my son."
From It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) by Mrs. Henry Wood
Fifield was wrapping up a high-profile prosecution of a retired Navy admiral who traded a government contract for a future job.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
Some begin swiftly wrapping up the olives to leave.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Rowling of her age, wrapping moral and economic lessons for the young into popular stories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Heaton: After wrapping the final season, I wanted to do “Industry,” which felt extremely different to me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
I scrubbed quickly with the soap, making sure my hair was wet all the way through before jumping back out and wrapping myself in a towel.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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