crèche
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"There is a danger in thinking the internet is a crèche," he commented on the BBC website.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2025
Mr. Rave says that this crèche is unusually large.
From NewsForKids.net ● May 7, 2024
ACLU, in which the Supreme Court held that the Constitution’s establishment clause barred the displays of a crèche and the Ten Commandments in county courthouses.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2022
But on Saturday, Pope Francis came to the rescue of both the conifer and the crèche.
From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2020
The guards seem to leave the crèche alone anyhow.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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“I’ve seen crèches up to 35 and 50 often, but 70 — that would be a very big crèche,” he told the New York Times.
From NewsForKids.net ● May 7, 2024
In crèches, the maximum ratio is five infants or eight toddlers per adult.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2017
It is her description of the nativity scene that has been adapted by most Renaissance artists, and appears today in the countless crèches that abound the world over.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2016
France’s pro-natalist policies, historically inspired by the need to breed soldiers to keep Germany at bay, guarantee Scandinavian levels of spending on family benefits and crèches.
From Economist ● May 26, 2016
Repeated, too, everywhere, were such crèches as the one he now entered.
From The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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