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To understand the soul may have required silk, cheesecloth, cotton wool, even offal—but these mundane materials, Warner shows us, held meaning.
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David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Everybody’s protected in cotton wool, even then.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2025
One of those arrested was a resident of East Jerusalem's Umm Tuba neighborhood, said by the Israel Police to have been detained while in possession of a lighter, cotton wool and other incendiary materials.
—Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
Users on social media platform Wechat shared images of a thick layer of fake snow made from cotton wool sheets, Reuters reported.
—Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
Cloth buttons used to be constructed around bits of cotton wool to absorb and emanate drops of perfume.
—Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2024
Wrapped in cotton wool by their parents and absorbed by their online lives, young people aren’t transitioning into adulthood in a healthy way, Haidt argues.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 29 Mar. 2024
People meeting Andy Warhol for the first time often emerge from the experience feeling as though their brains had been systematically stuffed with a mixture of cotton wool and Brillo.
—Stephen Birmingham, Town & Country, 10 Aug. 2023
The small, spongy end pieces look a bit like cotton wool, and indeed, some have been made using cotton.
—Cassie Werber, Quartz, 13 June 2023
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David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Everybody’s protected in cotton wool, even then.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2025
One of those arrested was a resident of East Jerusalem's Umm Tuba neighborhood, said by the Israel Police to have been detained while in possession of a lighter, cotton wool and other incendiary materials.
—Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
Users on social media platform Wechat shared images of a thick layer of fake snow made from cotton wool sheets, Reuters reported.
—Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
Cloth buttons used to be constructed around bits of cotton wool to absorb and emanate drops of perfume.
—Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2024
Wrapped in cotton wool by their parents and absorbed by their online lives, young people aren’t transitioning into adulthood in a healthy way, Haidt argues.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 29 Mar. 2024
People meeting Andy Warhol for the first time often emerge from the experience feeling as though their brains had been systematically stuffed with a mixture of cotton wool and Brillo.
—Stephen Birmingham, Town & Country, 10 Aug. 2023
The small, spongy end pieces look a bit like cotton wool, and indeed, some have been made using cotton.
—Cassie Werber, Quartz, 13 June 2023
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“Cotton wool.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cotton%20wool. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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