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ensheathing

verb

present participle of ensheathe

as in encapsulating

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In the 1920s the Soviet biochemist Vladimir and the French Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin developed the idea of the noosphere as being the sphere of human reason or thought encapsulating the Earth.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 27 July 2026
The SiriusXM-Audacy agreement is for sports and news stations around the country, encapsulating 42 in total in 29 markets.

— Andrew Marchand, New York Times, 21 July 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
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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Champions Nigeria enter with 10 stars encircling the crest on their jerseys, having won 10 of the previous 13 WAFCONs, and looking to add an 11th.

— Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 26 July 2026
The stone is halo-set on a pavé band—jewelry lingo for having a ring of small white diamonds encircling the stone and covering the band.

— Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 21 July 2026

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That gallery feels like the perfect frame for Aitken’s work, at once spacious and enfolding, spare and receptive to all that visual and sonic plushness.

— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 29 July 2026
Some may find this a bit too fine-grained, overly implicated in language’s self-enfolding folds.

— Katie Kadue, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026

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