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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 Kids Camps were equally as comprehensive, accepting newborns in the nursery to 17-year-olds in a more age appropriate space, like a karaoke bar.
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Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2025
The nursery is also selling other spring veggie and fruit plants.
—Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2025
The unnamed child, aged 3 or 4, was suspended from a state nursery during the 2022–23 academic year, according to data from the United Kingdom's Department for Education (DfE) obtained by The Telegraph.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
This glowing cloud of gas and dust acts as a stellar nursery, where new stars are born.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 31 Mar. 2025
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Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2025
The nursery is also selling other spring veggie and fruit plants.
—Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2025
The unnamed child, aged 3 or 4, was suspended from a state nursery during the 2022–23 academic year, according to data from the United Kingdom's Department for Education (DfE) obtained by The Telegraph.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
This glowing cloud of gas and dust acts as a stellar nursery, where new stars are born.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 31 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nursery
Noun
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Cartwright had been staying in the mill overnight with employees and armed reservists from the Cumberland militia, one of many military units dispatched to centers of unrest.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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This is a small fraction of the power needed to support data centers.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Though tablets were not around when his kids were in preschool, Field encourages today’s parents to help their kids foster a love for music and movement beyond screens.—
Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal,
Parents,
8 Apr. 2025
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With threats to higher education seemingly everywhere, institutions are increasingly considering a valuable idea most people learned in preschool — sharing.—
Derek Newton,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Paper Wasp nests resemble the shape of an upside-down umbrella.—
Ella Gonzales,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Apr. 2025
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Sea turtles, for example, haul themselves out onto beaches during breeding season to dig nests and plop dozens of eggs into the sandy divots before returning to the waves.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Apr. 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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But in New York, there has always been the theater business, as in producers and theater owners and press agents, all squeezed together in the hothouse neighborhood branded Broadway and integral to New York’s international identity since the Roaring ’20s.—
Frank Rich,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2025
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Will the flowers be daisies rather than priceless hothouse orchids?—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Nursery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nursery. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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