nurturing

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London Fashion Week, better known for nurturing new talent than for its big-name shows, kicks off on Thursday with a tribute to one of its stalwarts Paul Costelloe.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

It underwrites the sorts of elite cultural and educational institutions that Alexis de Tocqueville and others believed an egalitarian democracy would have difficulty nurturing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

There, an athlete can adopt a houseplant for the duration of his or her stay, nurturing it for a couple weeks before it’s donated to a local charity, perhaps for auction.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

“We didn’t want googly eyes on the robot, nothing like that. So it did kind of surprise us when people seemed to feel very nurturing towards their robots.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

His story makes clear that education is a long, unglamorous, even demeaning process—a nurturing never natural to the person one was before one entered a classroom.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez