cradle
Example Sentences
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The 2026 quota request didn’t pass Congress, and Mr. Bessent can kill it in the budget cradle this year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
Receivers who lunge and cradle in the air have nowhere to go.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
Longer consultations allow for continuity, she says, similar to when she started her career and family doctors gave "cradle to grave" care.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026
As in a Newton's cradle, motion in this atomic system continues without fading.
From Science Daily • Jan. 7, 2026
I remember David telling me that when I was a baby, he would rock the cradle if I was crying.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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