nurtured

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"It is time for Whitehall to accept that growth cannot be ordered from the top down - it can only be nurtured from the bottom up," Burnham said.

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2026

Civic life must be nurtured and renewed each generation.

From Salon • Jun. 30, 2026

Music mogul Clive Davis, the celebrated producer and label executive who signed and nurtured genre-defining musicians such as Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen and Whitney Houston, has died.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2026

Greenspan nurtured his reputation as a policy-setting “maestro” with two bold calls in the 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026

The mulefa had told her that the sraf, which had nurtured their lives and their world for thirty-three thousand years, had begun to fail just over three hundred years ago.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman