I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
locked in an embrace (= holding each other very tightly in a loving or friendly way )
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A moment later they were locked in an embrace .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
enthusiastically
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Whether that is a message that Oregon parents, students, and teachers will embrace enthusiastically remains to be seen.
fully
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We do not therefore believe the draft guidance, despite valiant efforts to convince, has fully embraced the concept of sustainability.
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Still, in some ways this manager had yet to fully embrace the notion of building a team.
■ NOUN
concept
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We do not therefore believe the draft guidance, despite valiant efforts to convince, has fully embraced the concept of sustainability.
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A further piece of veracity lay in the fact that Imelda could not embrace the concept of life without a husband.
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What still needs doing to help you to begin to embrace this concept ?
notion
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Still, in some ways this manager had yet to fully embrace the notion of building a team.
principle
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Community standards may embrace moral principles or they may not.
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If we agree that in that case women should be embraced by the liberty principle then so should children.
range
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The Faculty embraces an unusually wide range of departments.
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Every type of situation, from village church to cathedral, is embraced in a wide range of settings and styles.
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At worst there is a parochialism about this culture even though its completeness embraces a wide range of human activity and potential.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Before my flight was called we stood and embraced.
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By the end of the last century, Americans had embraced the idea of the right to free public education for all children.
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He jumped up and embraced his lawyer with both arms.
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Phoebe ran to embrace her mother.
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The category "kinsmen' also embraces grandparents and grandchildren.
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The President said he wholeheartedly embraced the need for further talks on the refugee crisis.
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The word "culture' embraces both artistic and sociological aspects of a society.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And like its counterparts within the high-performance loop, a program of inclusiveness can be insincerely embraced or carried to ridiculous lengths.
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I embraced the external formalities of femininity, its appearances, behaviors, look, and feel.
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Shadwell embraced them, and they kissed him, apparently without revulsion.
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The dark edge of the forest showed before them, advanced and embraced them.
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The reality of reengineering has begun to gnaw away at those who had earnestly embraced this newest form of management self-improvement.
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Though they were alone they did not embrace or kiss.
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We embrace our rules and red tape to prevent bad things from happening, of course.
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Wings embracing, they play in bright sunlight, Necks caressing roam the blue clouds.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
warm
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Some one being dragged from the warm embraces of a group of young ladies.
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More often, Washington and Pretoria are locked in warm embrace .
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Suddenly it was as though they weren't enemies at all, but locked in a passionate, warm embrace .
■ VERB
lock
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Ljungberg falls in the box with Babayaro locked in an embrace from behind.
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And when that happens, you will surely see Switzer and Jones locked in an embrace .
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Simultaneously they turned to face one another and a moment later they were locked in an embrace .
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More often, Washington and Pretoria are locked in warm embrace .
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Finally, in order to avoid being rounded up, they pretend to be locked in a passionate embrace in a doorway.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
melt into sb's arms/embrace
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Would they melt into each other's arms?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The children rushed into the embrace of their father.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even outside all these imaginings, rumor and derision held us in an unwelcome embrace .
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He caught Nina into a tight embrace , holding her close.
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His comment came as he was asked to explain his recent embrace of several Republican initiatives.
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Religions have also often attempted to reduce all human action to stylistic embrace as an expression of cosmological pretensions.
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She threw herself into his arms, sighing deeply when he half-heartedly returned her embrace .
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So both went down, literally in deadly embrace ....
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They were like a needle stuck in a gramophone record, inexorably repeating embrace after embrace.