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nourishing

[nur-i-shing, nuhr-] / ˈnɜr ɪ ʃɪŋ, ˈnʌr- /


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"It doesn't feel like homework, but it's also nourishing and you want to talk to your friends about it afterwards."

From BBC • May 13, 2026

It is nourishing in the old sense of the word.

From Salon • Jan. 13, 2026

It would be strategically worse than managed dependence because we’d be nourishing our own competition in the second-largest AI market in the world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

In such asides, Capote subtly reveals how food leads to story, our narratives as nourishing as anything on our holiday plates.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

I thought about the most nourishing liquids I could concoct.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien




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