nurture
Example Sentences
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You can also volunteer with a nonprofit to expand your skills—while also nurturing your bigger purpose.
From Barron's
There, an athlete can adopt a houseplant for the duration of his or her stay, nurturing it for a couple weeks before it’s donated to a local charity, perhaps for auction.
From Los Angeles Times
The austere institution southwest of Tokyo was set up by the founder of consumer-electronics giant Panasonic to nurture future leaders who, like Takaichi, didn’t have the privileged background typical of Japanese politicians.
“They nurture artists in the way that record labels used to do,” Fink said.
From Los Angeles Times
The younger Belichick's understanding of football was also nurtured by his mother, Jeannette, with whom he spent many weekends watching games on TV.
From BBC
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