as in extended family
the part of a family that includes only the father, mother, and children
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Recent Examples of nuclear family
The entire final sequence, which sees Carter, with a rictus grin, slaughtering his wife in the kitchen, envisions the self-destruction of the nuclear family.
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Beatrice Loayza, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
Image Financially unstable, Griffin’s own nuclear family is also threatening to split up.
—Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
The ensemble includes a nuclear family, group of old friends, an unlikely couple, and Season 1’s Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) — among many more.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025
In the postwar period, right after the end of the Second World War, there was a culture clash between establishment lifestyle–the man in a gray flannel suit who works in a corporate job and has a conventional kind of nuclear family and white-picket-fence house—and the counterculture.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2025
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Beatrice Loayza, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
Image Financially unstable, Griffin’s own nuclear family is also threatening to split up.
—Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
The ensemble includes a nuclear family, group of old friends, an unlikely couple, and Season 1’s Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) — among many more.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025
In the postwar period, right after the end of the Second World War, there was a culture clash between establishment lifestyle–the man in a gray flannel suit who works in a corporate job and has a conventional kind of nuclear family and white-picket-fence house—and the counterculture.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nuclear family
Noun
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People in these areas often live in extended families.—
Melissa Rudy,
Fox News,
17 Mar. 2025
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Most are left under the care of extended family, and in some cases, are separated from their siblings.—
Nathaly Triana,
CNN,
11 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In November 2021, Johnson brought his blended family together for the premiere of his film Red Notice.—
Kelsie Gibson,
Peoplemag,
8 Feb. 2023
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In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE in December, Teresa opened up about how her daughters love their new blended family following her extravagant August wedding to Ruelas — who is also father to sons Nicholas, 21, and Louie Jr., 19.—
Natalia Senanayake,
Peoplemag,
18 Jan. 2023
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In expressing their disbelief, people have been known to run away screaming or even burst into tears while Blaine maintains his deadpan, stoic facade.—
Jenelle Riley,
Variety,
22 Mar. 2025
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During 9/11, people walked down the stairs in single file and held the door open for each other.—
Rascal Kemble-Curry,
New York Daily News,
22 Mar. 2025
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Therefore, the stewards disqualified both drivers, stripping them of their race results.—
Yara Elshebiny,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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The Athletic’s experts Luke Smith (from Shanghai) and Madeline Coleman break down the season’s second race.—
Luke Smith,
The Athletic,
23 Mar. 2025
Noun
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For years the tribe has opposed the line as a risk to its water supply.—
Jack Dura,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2025
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The Garifuna people are descendants of Indigenous Caribbean tribes and enslaved Africans, who were exiled from St. Vincent and the Grenadines by British colonizers and settled largely on the coast of Central America.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
19 Mar. 2025
Noun
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As costs plummeted, factory automation enabled widespread adoption and the proliferation of household appliances.—
Mika Newton,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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The maximum amount of financial help an individual or household can receive from FEMA after a natural disaster destroys their home is $43,600 for housing assistance and an additional $43,600 for other needs.—
Ames Alexander and,
Charlotte Observer,
20 Mar. 2025
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Fauna, which is filled with beautiful tilework and flooded with daytime light, is meant to evoke the style and casual warmth of a Catalan bourgeois house.—
Elizabeth Brownfield,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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The layout of this single-story house includes two bedrooms and one bath.—
Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Sagittarius: Saxon Ratliff Saxton is the oldest of the Ratliff clan.—
Lisa Stardust,
People.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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The younger members of the Katzenellenbogen clan are certain that their forefathers’ way of life is no longer viable.—
Adam Kirsch,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Nuclear family.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nuclear%20family. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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