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nourishment

[nur-ish-muhnt, nuhr-] / ˈnɜr ɪʃ mənt, ˈnʌr- /


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And while more than 300 area churches may be providing spiritual sustenance to this town of 58,000 people, there's another institution that supplies it with economic nourishment.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

Rather than inventing caregiving from nothing, evolution may have expanded feeding behavior so that animals became motivated to provide nourishment to their offspring as well as themselves.

From Science Daily Aug. 1, 2026

The result is what Polyakov calls an “intimate symbiosis” that can help Joshua trees growing in dry desert soils reach pockets of nourishment that their roots alone would struggle to access, she said.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026

The sense of community one can find in a congregation hungry for spiritual nourishment.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 2, 2026

They lay together, like thin, strange, secret frogs, their bothes well-boned and ready to fill out into toughness as soon as they might be given decent nourishment.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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