nurture
Example Sentences
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The family came vividly alive—we sensed Augustine’s role as nurturing mother, as well as the cockiness of the older son.
“There’s a security rationale behind it, but you can also think of it as industrial policy. It represents a very deliberate attempt to spend money in Germany and nurture domestic industry,” Winkler said.
The theater Sheta ran in the camp, which he nurtured into an internationally known lodestar of Palestinian cultural resistance?
From Los Angeles Times
The things we keep and use in the kitchen, especially, can conjure powerful memories: aromatic reminders of nurturing care and loving connection as well as less savory bites of deprivation, regret, disappointment and loss.
They alienate young men, not just from women but also from each other, nurturing a worldview that sees all relationships as determined by hierarchy and domination.
From Salon
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