cradle
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At a store selling harmonic healing devices, I watched a man cradle a swaddled Chihuahua within a 9-foot-tall golden pyramid structure in an attempt to heal the dog’s vertigo.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
"Stromatolites could be more than 'just' a cradle of life where early microbial life flourished," says A/Prof. Burns.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
A steel cradle, designed to hold your phone horizontally, has been placed on a fence post.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
In the past 250 years, a nation once so fragile that it might have been strangled in its cradle has risen above all its major competitors and established itself as the world’s pre-eminent power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
There were twin whimpers from the cradle, as the babies briefly roused and then sank back into their newborn dreams.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
"Ukraine is one of the cradles of world winemaking," Klimov said, even though during the Soviet era factories churned out "wine of almost zero quality".
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
“I was my mother’s only daughter,” Ms. Phillips notes, “the one who would inherit the dishes, the cradles, the women’s things, and the stories.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Shipyards in both ports sent their new vessels from their cradles out into the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025
If it seems to many of us that Jones has been with us since we were in our cradles, that’s because he was.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2024
He got in their way so they couldn’t swing the cradles.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
I quickly regretted my words after I cradled Cosmo in my arms to unsuccessfully calm him down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
As the vessel neared the island—and Rhodes lost her ball cap in the wind—an app on the laptop she cradled lit up with digital WhaleSpotter images of whales exhaling, called “blows.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
"He really has such an endearing personality," she told AFP earlier this week as she cradled him at her home in the southeastern town of Villy-le-Pelloux.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
Jackson told reporters that he cradled King's head as he died - although other witnesses did not confirm that account.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
Mama sighed in exasperated confusion but kept walking, the coffee can cradled in her arm.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
Chris Manak walked into his Highland Park bar Gold Line cradling a formidable lizard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
“Turn a little bit sideways!” a photographer requested, and Hathaway laughed and complied, cradling her stomach proudly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
He entered the bathroom and saw Nix cradling Andrea, who was "limp" and wrapped in a towel.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
Martin, the author of the Game of Thrones books, cradling a fluffy wolf-like pup in his arms.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
Her mother was wearing a hospital gown and cradling a baby: Aru.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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