cradle
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“I’ve had a strong relationship with salsa music since I was young, even though I didn’t grew up in a place that was a cradle for that genre.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
A steel cradle, designed to hold your phone horizontally, has been placed on a fence post.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
In the past 250 years, a nation once so fragile that it might have been strangled in its cradle has risen above all its major competitors and established itself as the world’s pre-eminent power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
The building features giant stone letters on the top spelling out part of a speech that Obama gave in 2015 in Selma, Alabama, the cradle of the civil rights movement.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
The crib itself was an elaborate wicker swinging cradle that squeaked when it rocked.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
“I was my mother’s only daughter,” Ms. Phillips notes, “the one who would inherit the dishes, the cradles, the women’s things, and the stories.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
The photo, a mirror selfie, shows Jepsen all smiles in a leopard-print bucket hat, white shirt and black shorts as she cradles her child, who wears a green-striped onesie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
In the picture, Rihanna cradles her newborn, who is wearing a baby-pink jumpsuit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
If it seems to many of us that Jones has been with us since we were in our cradles, that’s because he was.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2024
She cradles the soy with her other arm then puts out her hand.
From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
As the vessel neared the island—and Rhodes lost her ball cap in the wind—an app on the laptop she cradled lit up with digital WhaleSpotter images of whales exhaling, called “blows.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
"He really has such an endearing personality," she told AFP earlier this week as she cradled him at her home in the southeastern town of Villy-le-Pelloux.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
Lakers fans should also celebrate Austin Reaves who, after making an incredible missed free-throw play to send the same game into overtime lovingly cradled the basketball and whispered to it “I love you.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026
Jackson told reporters that he cradled King's head as he died - although other witnesses did not confirm that account.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
Jinjoo sat down and cradled Junsoo in her lap.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
He entered the bathroom and saw Nix cradling Andrea, who was "limp" and wrapped in a towel.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
They focus on motherhood and love, with rounded forms cradling one another and calling to mind the work of Henry Moore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
To the left, “Painting and Sculpture” clutches a palette while cradling a miniaturized replica of the Dionysus torso from the Parthenon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Trump's spokeswoman -- who is best known for her acid put-downs of journalists -- posted a picture of herself in a nursery, cradling her baby daughter to her chest.
From Barron's ● May 7, 2026
Torak curled into a ball, cradling his throbbing arm and thinking bitterly what a mess he’d made of things.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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