as in wrapping
to surround or cover closely
cocooned in puffy down parkas, we braved the bitter cold as best we could
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Recent Examples of cocooning
Drivers who failed to dig out while the snow from our late-January storm was still soft are now contending with thick walls of ice cocooning their vehicles.
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Clio Chang, Curbed, 5 Feb. 2026
Josephson likes to turn down the volume on the outside world, cocooning her readers in the white noise of affirmation.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
Fluid yet substantial, this favorite from Cos skims the body with soft folds that are both cocooning and refined.
—Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2025
The first is with Tallulah, her best friend slash client who’s been slacking off on both fronts since cocooning into her new relationship with Tessa.
—Caroline Framke, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2025
The half-moon shape is especially conducive to cocooning you for hours on end.
—Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 30 Oct. 2025
That’s just shy of a record 444 set in 2022 when people were cocooning in homes during the pandemic.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2025
On the other are technologists, military planners and captains of industry who are rapidly cocooning our planet in ever growing swarms of starlight-spoiling satellites.
—Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2025
Clio Chang, Curbed, 5 Feb. 2026
Josephson likes to turn down the volume on the outside world, cocooning her readers in the white noise of affirmation.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
Fluid yet substantial, this favorite from Cos skims the body with soft folds that are both cocooning and refined.
—Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2025
The first is with Tallulah, her best friend slash client who’s been slacking off on both fronts since cocooning into her new relationship with Tessa.
—Caroline Framke, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2025
The half-moon shape is especially conducive to cocooning you for hours on end.
—Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 30 Oct. 2025
That’s just shy of a record 444 set in 2022 when people were cocooning in homes during the pandemic.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2025
On the other are technologists, military planners and captains of industry who are rapidly cocooning our planet in ever growing swarms of starlight-spoiling satellites.
—Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cocooning
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Abrams launched Bad Robot with Bryan Burk in May 1999 when Abrams’ first series as a creator, the WB’s Felicity, was wrapping its first season.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
2 Apr. 2026
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Backed by his band the Dark Clouds, the singer-songwriter will embark on dates behind Mutiny After Midnight this fall and summer, starting in Austin, Texas, in early September and wrapping in Lexington, Kentucky, on Halloween.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
1 Apr. 2026
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The trending barrel-back design supports you while enveloping you more than a square or rectangular design might.—
Kate McGregor,
Architectural Digest,
31 Mar. 2026
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Sunny skies and mild breezes are enveloping the Pharmalot campus once again.—
Ed Silverman,
STAT,
26 Mar. 2026
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Then venetian blinds shrouding the box slowly rose to reveal glass walls and, inside them, a sinister diorama—a replica of RTLM, or Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, the radio station that fuelled the catastrophe.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2026
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So unfortunately, right now there's a cloud of mystery still shrouding what's happening here.—
Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
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On top lies the picotage technique as well as a pattern of overlapping black circles, that is both enclosing and creating space while also keeping out.—
Noelle Alviz-Gransee
March 6,
Kansas City Star,
6 Mar. 2026
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Buyers at Gatherpoint can personalize their homes to their preferences with options for extending patios, lanais and garages, enclosing flex rooms and expanding indoor-outdoor connections with pocketing or zero-corner sliding glass doors.—
Pulte Homes,
Miami Herald,
26 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The concrete cap of a tomb encasing radioactive fallout now has cracks, and what’s beneath can rise from the dead.—
Devika Rao,
TheWeek,
31 Mar. 2026
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The crunchy encasing pairs perfectly with the melty cheese and various fillings inside, including cheese, tinga, potato and chorizo, and raja (strips of peppers and onions).—
Carolyn Burt,
Oc Register,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Cocooning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cocooning. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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