nurture
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Other Mommy promises to nurture Bela, but clearly she represents the worst type of matriarch imaginable: one who is frightening, controlling and dangerous.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
Her production company, Paper Kite, continues to nurture work by younger artists, with a soft spot for ride-or-die female friends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
"We've definitely helped nurture nightlife within the city."
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
With Noah being a Manhunter, it turned out that he and John were dealing with similar questions around lineage and legacy and nature versus nurture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
I just didn't have the confidence and determination to sit still and nurture them properly.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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“It is this right that sustains and nurtures our democracy today.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
In actuality, what it nurtures and rewards is dutiful followership.
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2025
He identifies quality and nurtures it, especially in players, who are helped by relentless and specific video analysis, with Ollie Watkins a particular beneficiary.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024
Moreover, nature-rich settings bring out “prosocial behavior” — helping, sharing and caring for others — which nurtures human connections.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
Perhaps it originally represented the important insight that the sky nurtures the Earth; if so, that meaning seems to have been forgotten millennia ago.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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My nascent cinephilia was nurtured by movies on VHS.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
For Subhrasree, the two-week tour was to be her first pilgrimage, and a dream she had nurtured for years.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
A university lab nurtured the computer scientists who are using ingenuity and imitation to chase down Anthropic and OpenAI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Read: Hardcore gamers nurtured Nvidia and the AI boom.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
I have discovered, deep in the hearts of many condemned and incarcerated people, the scattered traces of hope and humanity—seeds of restoration that come to astonishing life when nurtured by very simple interventions.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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Early in the 20th century, Franzoy’s great grandfather arrived from Italy, cleared the desert land and planted chilies, onions and potatoes, nurturing the plants with water from the Rio Grande.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
The report said "children were cared for in a comfortable, welcoming and homely environment" and "were cared for with warmth, kindness and a nurturing approach".
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
“But the smell and warmth is very nurturing and comforting.”
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
In this week’s episode of The Envelope podcast, Chase Infiniti discusses her meteroic rise, her Emmy nomination for “The Testaments” and nurturing the ambition to become an actor since age 10.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Jonas’s father wearing his nurturing uniform, entered the room, cradling a tiny newchild wrapped in a soft blanket in his arms.
From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
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