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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enfold.

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Examples

  • From the Cascabel Taqueria team and a well-traveled Le Cordon Bleu grad, Mahjong enfolds myriad global flavors in delicate skins, casually alotting its 46 seats among banquettes, window hightops, and a communal table, decorating its bar with eponymous game pieces and bark, hanging oversized lanterns from the ceiling, and making wallpaper out of recycled magazines, about the only affordablePenthouse on the UES.

    Thrillist: Mahjong Dumplings: Tiled Of Normal Dumplings? Thrillist 2011

  • Let me feel that you are near, and that your care enfolds me.

    Bigger Roles for Chaplains on Patient Medical Teams Laura Landro 2011

  • The body of the guitar opens and enfolds Wilhelm's right arm.

    Colors of Music Matthew J. Robinson 2011

  • Now against this friction with the FBI, Kelly's threat to end the Bank Robbery Task Force enfolds as yet another slap at the Bureau.

    Len Levitt: Kelly vs. the FBI: Round 17,000 Len Levitt 2011

  • Estancia Vik's traditionally styled hacienda enfolds a treasure trove of art surprises -- even in the pool, whose fiber-optic-lit bottom mimics the constellations overhead.

    Off the Beaten Track Richard Nalley 2010

  • Nancy positions the launcher carefully, then enfolds the quail inside like an astronaut in a space capsule.

    Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

  • And what of the vast sense of love I so frequently feel that must have come down to me from the lovers among the bloodlines who defied everything and everyone around them, especially the government and the church, in order to send down to their descendant a sense of oneness that easily enfolds distant galaxies and the stars?

    Archive 2008-10-01 Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2008

  • And what of the vast sense of love I so frequently feel that must have come down to me from the lovers among the bloodlines who defied everything and everyone around them, especially the government and the church, in order to send down to their descendant a sense of oneness that easily enfolds distant galaxies and the stars?

    Introducing The Ojibwa Warrior Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2008

  • The renowned physicist David Bohm said, "Each person enfolds something of the spirit of the other in his consciousness."

    Dr. Larry Dossey: Premonitions and Spirituality 2009

  • It takes you aback, takes ten minutes to get used to, and then enfolds you in total concentration.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

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