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swaddles

  • present tense form of swaddle (3rd person singular).

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Chasing down a comment on male-imposed expectations — and, more subtly, self-imposed ones — her macro lens swaddles everything in consumable lushness.

From Los Angeles Times May 21, 2024

There are add-ons—sleep sacks and swaddles and sheets—that only work with the Snoo.

From Slate Feb. 23, 2023

The kitchen prepares tortillas to order, each pressed by hand, Salvadoran-style, into a corn-scented wrapper that swaddles your choice of filling.

From Washington Post Aug. 2, 2021

A crucial part of spinning, the researchers found, requires the spidroins to separate themselves from the watery buffer that swaddles them inside silk glands — a step that hyper-concentrates the proteins.

From New York Times Nov. 4, 2020

The puke swaddles down the pillow onto the sheet—green-gray, with flecks of orange.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison