nursed

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Nursed in the heyday of neoliberalism with an aversion to earnestness, the mind-set of a cosmopolitan Generation X made little room for labor interests and imagined that unions were for people who carried lunch pails.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2022

Nursed by the great fortunes and public pride of Astors, Vanderbilts, Morgans and Rockefellers, its aspirations to own ancient and Old World art have been well satisfied in the last half century.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nursed by the faithful Beauvoir, he spent his last years in seclusion in Paris or wintering in Italy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sister branches too, Nursed at the self-same place with him from whom they grew.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

Nursed by stern men, with empires in their brains!

From The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by McGovern, John