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nourishment

[nur-ish-muhnt, nuhr-] / ˈnɜr ɪʃ mənt, ˈnʌr- /


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He pledged investments in China's clothing industry, adding that the "nourishment" from the country has been "inseparable" from Shein's success.

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

Rather than inventing caregiving from nothing, evolution may have expanded feeding behavior so that animals became motivated to provide nourishment to their offspring as well as themselves.

From Science Daily Aug. 1, 2026

The result is what Polyakov calls an “intimate symbiosis” that can help Joshua trees growing in dry desert soils reach pockets of nourishment that their roots alone would struggle to access, she said.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026

Ms. Tatar speaks of the female spider’s habit of killing and consuming her mate, taking in his fluids as nourishment for laying hundreds of eggs.

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

But she understood, at least, that they did give him a kind of bitter nourishment, and that the secrets they held for him were a matter of his life and death.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin




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