as in to encapsulate
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While sateen tends to be more dense as the threads are packed tightly, the Signature Hemmed Sheet Set from Boll & Branch manages to encapsulate the buttery softness without feeling too heavy.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
7 Feb. 2026 -
And so that’s kind of encapsulated in the scene with him and Maggie afterwards.—
Pat Saperstein,
Variety,
7 Feb. 2026
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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.—
Clio Chang,
Curbed,
5 Feb. 2026
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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
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The hanging quickly devolves into an all-out bacchanal, as onlookers drink, dance and kiss in the square surrounding the flailing corpse.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
13 Feb. 2026
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With supply stretched, these resources become more precious, and more expensive, for other businesses in the areas surrounding data center construction, according to Fordham University economics professor Marc Conte.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
13 Feb. 2026
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But Assad assured his aides that regime forces were coming from the south to encircle and defend the capital.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2026
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Its head doesn’t resemble the shape of a skull, like most other humanoids, but instead a cylinder with a flat face encircled by a ring of light.—
Rachyl Jones,
semafor.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Encyst.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encyst. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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