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as in center
a place or environment that favors the development of something
ancient Greece is often cited as the nursery of democracy
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as in preschool
a school for children who are generally less than five years old
are asking parents not to bring their children to the nursery if they have the flu virus
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Recent Examples of nursery
Best Wooden Rattle An ingenious design adds a modern twist to a classic nursery favorite.
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Pamela Brill, Parents, 22 May 2025
Its community nursery and training center on Spring Street in San Jose also has had to trim its hours to Saturdays only from 9 a.m. to noon.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 8 May 2025
The two were stationed in Gibraltar and later Hong Kong, where Caterham founded a nursery.
—Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 3 May 2025
This ranges from a solar farm housing grazing sheep as a natural way to maintain the land, to a learning center, fruit orchard, tree nursery and vegetable patch dedicated to growing foods that are hard to get in Puerto Rico, like kale, lettuce and tomatoes.
—Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
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Pamela Brill, Parents, 22 May 2025
Its community nursery and training center on Spring Street in San Jose also has had to trim its hours to Saturdays only from 9 a.m. to noon.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 8 May 2025
The two were stationed in Gibraltar and later Hong Kong, where Caterham founded a nursery.
—Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 3 May 2025
This ranges from a solar farm housing grazing sheep as a natural way to maintain the land, to a learning center, fruit orchard, tree nursery and vegetable patch dedicated to growing foods that are hard to get in Puerto Rico, like kale, lettuce and tomatoes.
—Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nursery
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The hurricane center had also begun using a new forecast map, which highlighted in red the risk of flooding posed to the area.—
Greg Allen,
NPR,
1 June 2025
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While most campaigns historically focused on physical infrastructure, many now include less visible priorities: legal clinics, policy centers, and public interest litigation units.—
Michelle Mbekeani,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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This means around 29,500 students in 74 schools and preschools potentially face exposure to noxious emissions that can be released during extraction.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2025
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For example, during the early childhood years, preschool and kindergarten children learn to identify numerals and match them to their quantity through hands-on math activities.—
Jose Bolanos,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2025
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Poets toil as often-anonymous individuals building some greater nest, colony, or hive that might outlast us or end up squashed and swept away unceremoniously.—
Hannah Brooks-Motl
June 2,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2025
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Video showed that, as the eaglet took off at 10:46 a.m., Gizmo’s head swiveled, monitoring as Sunny fledged, or made an inaugural flight from the nest.—
Summer Lin,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2025
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Historically, popes have not been associated with any specific religious order, but instead have been former priests who've ascended the church's hierarchy from diocesan seminaries and parishes.—
Erik Ortiz,
NBC news,
9 May 2025
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Catholic seminaries and convents across Vietnam have also expanded in recent years, producing a bumper crop of young priests and nuns.—
Damien Cave,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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The live script read in Banff keeps pace with the festival’s traditional market role of helping hothouse TV series in development, rather than see the selling of finished product as at the two MIPs in Cannes.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
27 May 2025
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America has already had a President whose celebrity was nourished at the movies; what could be more logical than to elect a man who bloomed in the hothouse of TV?—
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
25 July 2024
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“Nursery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nursery. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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