as in wrapping
to surround or cover closely
a villa that has been embosomed by the verdant hills of northern Italy for three centuries
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Costco recommends wrapping it in a towel and smashing it into pieces with a hammer.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Mar. 2026 -
So Jazzlyn dropped the tape and used all her strength to keep the snake from wrapping around her dad.—
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
5 Mar. 2026
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Oversized coats, structured yet enveloping silhouettes, and shearling pieces really define the look.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
2 Mar. 2026
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Music remained my tool, my outlet, my light in the darkness that was enveloping me.—
Des Moines Register,
Des Moines Register,
2 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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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
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The implications run much deeper than enclosing a space along Lake Michigan for dogs to roam freely.—
Shun Graves,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Embosoming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embosoming. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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