nuclear family
Example Sentences
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There’s a real “misery loves company” component to the pressure to shoehorn everyone into their narrow vision of the nuclear family.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
Many Americans, research shows, find nuclear family structures isolating and insufficient, with some choosing to delay or avoid marriage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
But the breakdown of the nuclear family may very well be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
Scott recalled growing up in a working-class family in Birmingham, "in a world of soap operas and things" where TV characters were mostly in heterosexual relationships or "settled down" in a nuclear family.
From BBC ● May 31, 2025
Behind him huddled his nuclear family, a circle of two smaller females and about eighteen bucktoothed guinea pig children.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
