nurture
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To channel it effectively, Brach advocates mindfulness, in particular the "RAIN" strategy - recognise the emotion, allow yourself to experience it, investigate the cause, and nurture feelings of understanding.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
His dedication to spending time in Mexico, while inconvenient for your relationship, demonstrates that he knows how to manage and nurture his own happiness and isn’t relying on you to satisfy that need.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
From early in his rap career, he expressed his desire to become a producer so he could sign and nurture other talent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Dubbed the “little tigers” of China’s graphics processing units industry, the four firms represent part of Beijing’s push to end reliance on foreign technology and nurture a “homegrown Nvidia.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Her uncle had taken her on this trip as a favor, to nurture her budding talent.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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And as one exceptional son recognizes in another, the difference between how we’re born and what we become is who nurtures us.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
Conventional wisdom now has it that Hollywood no longer creates and nurtures young stars in the way it once did.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025
The domestic game nurtures talent and its importance to the sport in our country should not be underestimated.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 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
The water roars and tumbles below us, sending up a soft spray that nurtures mosses and maidenhair ferns where it falls.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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His task, say people close to the company, will be to guard the unique culture Warren Buffett nurtured to keep everything from candy to railroads to insurance under one roof in a $1 trillion conglomerate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
“Through the generational musical voices that he nurtured, he created the soundtrack to all our lives, his legacy has been with us at all our greatest moments.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
There's no doubt during the 20 months since his arrival at Villa's Bodymoor Heath training ground that Hemmings has been nurtured in the strict requirements of 'Emery Ball'.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
This demonstrated that the neuropeptides were not merely associated with caregiving but could actively influence whether an ant nurtured larvae or went searching for food.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
For reasons still unclear, America, the land that had given birth to Ashe and nurtured him, loomed bright as the place to go to realise my fullest potential in tennis, in life.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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The women’s relationship is honest and nurturing, and Ms. Orringer portrays it with great sensitivity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
She added that Clancy had been a "very nurturing" mother until the birth of her youngest son.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
He reduces Bourdain to a zygote who simply needed enough nurturing to become his older, cooler self, when he could, instead, read between the lines to find what makes young Tony special.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
Complicating matters, he has never been particularly generous or nurturing, and he has no spouse, children or other immediate next of kin.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Nurse bees, August said, had a gift for nurturing, and they fed all the baby bees.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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