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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
The authors see this as a refutation of the hypothesis that megalodons relied on nursery areas to rear their young, since a baby megalodon would be quite capable of hunting and killing marine mammals based on size alone.
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Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2025
This includes other kids in day care or caregivers in nurseries who handle babies.
—William Truswell, Verywell Health, 28 Feb. 2025
The expecting parents decided to find out their baby's gender while preparing the nursery.
—Devonne Goode, Parents, 5 Mar. 2025
In case you were majorly inspired by the nursery in Joseph Altuzarra’s Hamptons home, get the look with the designer dad’s West Elm collab.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 4 Mar. 2025
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Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2025
This includes other kids in day care or caregivers in nurseries who handle babies.
—William Truswell, Verywell Health, 28 Feb. 2025
The expecting parents decided to find out their baby's gender while preparing the nursery.
—Devonne Goode, Parents, 5 Mar. 2025
In case you were majorly inspired by the nursery in Joseph Altuzarra’s Hamptons home, get the look with the designer dad’s West Elm collab.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 4 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nursery
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Sweetwater Creek This state park is a still refuge just a few minutes from Atlanta’s bustling city center.—
Nicole Letts,
Southern Living,
21 Mar. 2025
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Ransomware is like a hard-drive failure in a server or storage array, a power outage at the office or data center or a localized or system-wide network outage.—
John Bruggeman,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Proceeds will benefit the preschool and support local nonprofits like Poway Life Choices pregnancy center.—
Pomerado News,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Mar. 2025
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Ally Sullivan, deputy press secretary for Polis in a statement to Newsweek pointed to Polis' efforts to help people save money, make housing affordable and create universal preschool preschool and kindergarten as to why people are moving to the state.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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Whenever the other eagles in the aviary came near his rock and its nest, Murphy would scream and charge at them, the sanctuary wrote.—
Saleen Martin,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 2025
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When the researchers approached the bird’s nest, the fuzzy nestling shook its head, flicking it back and forth.—
ByErik Stokstad,
science.org,
20 Mar. 2025
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It’s headed by Rabbi Avi Weiss and Rabba Sara Hurwitz, the founders of liberal Orthodox seminaries in New York City.—
Asaf Elia-Shalev,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Mar. 2025
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Born in Poland in 1920, Karol Józef Wojtyła attended clandestine seminaries and frequented groups of intellectuals who met in secret to discuss ways of undermining Communism from within.—
Yvonnick Denoël,
airmail.news,
1 Feb. 2025
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Photograph by Mary Mattingly / Courtesy Robert Mann Gallery Mary Mattingly’s photographs of moonlit gardens turn the Robert Mann gallery into a hallucinatory hothouse.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
31 Jan. 2025
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Nothing in this quiet hothouse of youthful desires, mean-girl tensions and hovering Catholic guilt qualifies as especially new terrain, but the film’s dreamy-yet-gawky carnality and honestly juvenile point of view feel fresh just the same.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Nursery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nursery. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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