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.
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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.
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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.
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Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
15 Dec. 2025
The half-moon shape is especially conducive to cocooning you for hours on end.
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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.
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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.
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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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The series debuted in April 2020, before wrapping its fourth season in November 2024.
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Cult Gaia’s Cassidy sandal showcases a sculptural calla lily design wrapping around the foot such that the winding strap resembles a stem.
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Rain washed out qualifying Saturday, and the gray, overcast sky served as a fitting background for the somber mood enveloping Charlotte Motor Speedway and its 1½-mile track.
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The feeling is organic and involving, just as the sound of the voices is intimate and enveloping.
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Congressional leaders, wired to protect their own and afraid of upsetting their narrow margins, are famous for shrouding ethics investigations in secrecy and dragging them out for years.
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Advertisement Israel has bombed oil depots in Tehran, shrouding the city in toxic black smoke, and attacked Iran’s South Pars gas field.
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The animal farm had a two-meter-high fence enclosing it, half of it underground.
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Always leave one side open and ensure ventilation when enclosing outdoor equipment.
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Even still, most of its diminutive size was just plastic packaging, encasing the far tinier, unfathomably dense network of billions of transistors embedded in silicon.
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The 360-degree curved glass walls encasing the galleries offered many glimpses of a face that belonged to me but somehow wasn’t mine.
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“Cocooning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cocooning. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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