cradle
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In “The Cradle of Citizenship,” Mr. Traub writes that “education theory is highly ideological, and thus subject to drastic change, while schools themselves are driven by pragmatic calculations that make them resistant to change.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
The Housemaid has been compared to domestic thrillers of the 1990s, like The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2025
They successfully extracted proteins from the enamel of four P. robustus teeth found at Swartkrans Cave, part of South Africa's Cradle of Humankind.
From Science Daily • Nov. 1, 2025
At the time she was running a boutique called the Cradle Company that catered to Atwater’s moms and babies.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2024
As promised in the list, she brought a Kurt Vonnegut book, Cat’s Cradle, and she read aloud to me, her soft voice mingling with the the frogs’ croaking and the grasshoppers landing softly around us.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
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