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nursery

[nur-suh-ree] / ˈnɜr sə ri /
NOUN
child's room
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Among the diverse habitats are a salt marsh that serves as a nursery for leopard sharks and bat rays and kelp forests frequented by harbor seals and wrasses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Officials later found that dozens of provincial officials and hospital staff attempted to cover up the incident by tampering with blood tests and accepting bribes from a nursery investor.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Educational inequality has been debated in France for 25 years, with disparities emerging as early as nursery school, Charbonnier said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

True, in the nearly two decades that she’s been creating plush figures, she’s produced charmingly minimalistic foxes, cats and buffalo fit for a nursery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

At Beowulf’s chirruping call, the little rodent scampered into the nursery and offered Penelope a great prize indeed: a single perfect acorn, carried with pride in those tiny, monkeylike paws.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Rather than serving as homes for protective ants, some of the plant chambers had effectively become nurseries stocked with prey for developing wasp larvae.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Some longtime citrus growers and nurseries have set up plots of land where researchers can experiment on real trees, and gather data to help fight the disease.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

He began opening small nurseries, staffed by volunteers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

He is also concerned about unregulated nurseries selling unidentified, or diseased plants.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

When El Lider needed volunteers to build nurseries in Villa Clara province, Celia joined a microbrigade, setting tiles and operating a construction lift.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García


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