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UK
/kəkˈuːnɪŋ/
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[ US /kəˈkunɪŋ/ ]
[ US /kəˈkunɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- retreating to the seclusion of your home (as for privacy or escape)
How To Use cocooning In A Sentence
- Soon enough, we will all be cocooning again around the fireplace, so now is the time to change the pace.
- Increasingly, we deal with the hyperculture cacophony by cocooning - commuting home with headphones on while working on our laptops.
- First known for her early 1990's prediction that we would soon be cocooning, she has since become a guru on being a consumer.
- When they are ready, they begin cocooning and extrude a semi-liquid mixture of protein and a sticky substance known as sericin. Undefined
- The proposal invites locals to change their habit of cocooning inside unhealthy, mechanically ventilated environments.
- This is "cocooning" - the decade-old idea of the home as a safe, soothing nest - but pushed to the extreme, and with a dose of humour thrown in as well. Canada.com Top Stories
- - tight family budgets have forces families to spend less -- and more carefully -- on entertainment such as sporting events, theater tickets, weekend trips opting instead for staycations (stay at home vacations) - because of outside stress, families to do what Faith Popcorn calls cocooning - coming home, locking out the world and bonding / sharing Undefined
- Sociologists and researchers blame dismal job prospects and sky-high rents for such cocooning, which is said to affect 59 percent of Italians aged 18 to 34, according to the Eurispes research institute. Alanat News
- In her recent book, The Faith Popcorn Report, she explains that cocooning is about "reality retreat -- the impulse to stay inside when it just gets too tough and scary outside. Making It in the New Economy
- The crucial ingredient, the key to successful cocooning, is a cosseted feeling underfoot. Times, Sunday Times