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
But the breakdown of the nuclear family may very well be.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
“I want them to see how Easy has developed and changed over the years. And that family, even though Easy’s doesn’t look like the nuclear family, is what America has always been about.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2025
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
