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- verb to cover with, or in,
cotton wool
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Examples
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Oh, dear cotton-wool citizen, please believe me when I tell you that men are killed in prisons today as they have always been killed since the first prisons were built by men.
Chapter 7 2010
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Catherine had to reassure me that I could not hurt her with a cotton-wool ball and a bowl of tepid water.
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Most likely, it was one of the 10 great species of clouds, beginning with low- altitude cumulus ("cotton-wool puffs"), stratocumulus ("a low layer or patch of cloud") and stratus (a "gray overcast layer").
Cirrus Concerns Peter Pesic 2011
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You are clearly unable to distinguish between a severe risk, which would almost certainly have ended up as a fatality, and a low risk which might result in exactly the sort of cotton-wool regulations you mention.
What Really Matters At The Top « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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It was a peaceful, quiet scene, with the sun spilling down over everything, and the blue April sky above, patched with great white cotton-wool clouds.
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A bucket and two pans were filled to the brim with cotton-wool swabs and dirty bandages.
Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010
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During the Mexican dry season, a peculiar and very distinctive leafless tree often attracts attention because it appears to have large balls of fluffy cotton-wool attached to the ends of its branches.
Did You Know? Mexico's kapok trees aided the U.S. war effort 2008
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To open a drawer and see thirty different very beautiful eggs nestling in their compartments on pink cotton-wool was a lovely sight.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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During the Mexican dry season, a peculiar and very distinctive leafless tree often attracts attention because it appears to have large balls of fluffy cotton-wool attached to the ends of its branches.
Did You Know? Mexico's kapok trees aided the U.S. war effort 2008
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Wispy, cotton-wool clouds slide across the screen, and then the camera dips beneath them, and theres the city, spread out like a map.
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