crèche
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"There is a danger in thinking the internet is a crèche," he commented on the BBC website.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2025
Mr. Rave says that this crèche is unusually large.
From NewsForKids.net ● May 7, 2024
Gazing at the crèche, Maria Letizia Panerai, 58, said the ceramic figures were just what she was looking for in a manger scene.
From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2020
Eighteenth-century terra-cotta angels in silk robes deck the tree’s boughs, and an elaborate crèche re-creating the bustle of life in the port city of Naples sprawls at its base.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 16, 2018
You’d have loved all of this—as well as the strings of lights she wound around the crèche and the branch she stuck in a pot and called a Christmas tree.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
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“I’ve seen crèches up to 35 and 50 often, but 70 — that would be a very big crèche,” he told the New York Times.
From NewsForKids.net ● May 7, 2024
In crèches, the maximum ratio is five infants or eight toddlers per adult.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2017
It is her description of the nativity scene that has been adapted by most Renaissance artists, and appears today in the countless crèches that abound the world over.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2016
France’s pro-natalist policies, historically inspired by the need to breed soldiers to keep Germany at bay, guarantee Scandinavian levels of spending on family benefits and crèches.
From Economist ● May 26, 2016
Although attendance was voluntary, it was believed that over 60 percent of the preschool-age children were enrolled in crèches or kindergartens.
From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Violeta D. Baluyut
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