nursery
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Aquarium staff check on the makeshift nursery three to four times a day, but will soon increase those visits to every other hour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
One afternoon in April, a children's nursery worker approached her manager in a what she described as an hysterical state.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
“Edinburgh was uniquely configured to operate as a nursery for the nascent discipline,” Ms. Fitzharris explains, partly because of the number of serious crimes tried in the city.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
With the disease still spreading five months into the epidemic, the nursery in the remote east is one of 12 receiving the children of those killed by the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Someone was pounding on the nursery door, which was odd, as Penelope could not recall locking it.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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Victoria Welton, a photographer based in Crewkerne, works across 15 schools and nurseries in Somerset.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Some longtime citrus growers and nurseries have set up plots of land where researchers can experiment on real trees, and gather data to help fight the disease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
The Los Angeles County Fire Department Forestry Division also has been offering free oaks, in addition to other native plants, at its two nurseries in San Dimas and Malibu for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
A spectacular new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope offers a front row view of one of the universe's busiest stellar nurseries.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
In contrast to the lush growth within the nurseries, the grounds of the park had been scraped free of all vegetation.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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