Jane Pauley

This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!

American Journalist

Eric Metaxas

Quite simply, our isolation from nature has become isolation from God's Word. Cocooned in our manmade world of climate-controlled homes, cars, subways, and high-rises, we're finding it easier to live as practical atheists.

American Author

Alia Bhatt

I come from a protected environment of a Juhu house, and I wasn't exposed to life as shown in 'Highway'. It's not that I'm a snob, but I was cocooned from the reality of life. The film made me aware of life and myself.

British Actress

Mira Nair

What's nice about what we have is when you enter the set, the world of film, it becomes this real cocoon, very different from all the publicity. That's the fun part.

Indian Director

Mitch Kapor

In my case, having knocked around at different jobs helped me get a sense of what the world is actually like and also helped me get out of a cocoon.

American Businessman

Eric Topol

The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

American Scientist

Karin Slaughter

I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

American Writer

Eva Green

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

French Actress

Elif Safak

Art and literature should help us to get out of our mental cocoons.

Turkish Author

Pernell Roberts

I don't have a battery of agents to surround me in a cocoon.

American Actor

A cocoon is specifically for the transformation phase of insects, not any shelter.

Metamorphosis Stage

Cocoons are made from materials the insect produces, like silk or other substances.

Natural Material

Cocoons are a temporary structure, the insect leaves it once mature.

Temporary Shelter

Cocoon often implies emotional comfort and security, not just physical shelter.

Emotional Security

This definition of cocoon is used metaphorically to describe a cozy, isolated space.

Figurative Use

Using 'cocoon' implies both comfort and a degree of separation from others.

Comfort and Isolation

When used as a verb, cocoon suggests a deliberate choice to stay apart.

Self-Imposed Isolation

Cocooning may convey a need for privacy or time alone.

Seeking Solitude

The verb 'cocoon' can imply a temporary escape from life's stresses.

Escaping Reality

 In their larval caterpillar form, they chomp hungrily through leaves at a rapid rate to help them grow and spin cocoons. But when they emerge as butterflies, these insects feed only on flower nectar. Metamorphosis means the larvae and adults of one species will never compete for the same resource,

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 fibroid and silk fibrin is basically just the protein from a silk cocoon as shown here and it has a ton of properties but one of them is that when you mix a protein with it it is able to stabilize it and make it kind of chemically stabilized so that's the

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 And this happens across scales. The silkworm first attaches itself to the environment -- it creates a tensile structure -- and it then starts spinning a compressive cocoon. Tension and compression, the two forces of life, manifested in a single material.

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 with the worlds beyond the one we take for granted, then we too run the risk of drying up inside. Our imagination might shrink; our hearts might dwindle, and our humanness might wither if we stay for too long inside our cultural cocoons.

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 it pushes its way out of the abdomen of that ladybug and it spins its cocoon. And the problem is this cocoon is a very vulnerable stage in the lifecycle of this wasp. It's just sitting there immobile

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 the voracious larvae grow quickly and then pupate a few weeks after the eggs were laid the first tiny pale workers emerged from these silky cocoons

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 wounded caterpillar helps them out usually a caterpillar would spin a silken blanket to make its own cocoon but the parasitized caterpillar spins

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 grow quickly and then pupate a few weeks after the eggs were laid the first tiny pale workers emerged from these silky cocoons

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 and then pupate a few weeks after the eggs were laid the first tiny pale workers emerge from these silky cocoons

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 a few weeks after the eggs were laid the first tiny pale workers emerged from these silky cocoons