nuclear family

Example Sentences

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The author was born into a traditional nuclear family: father Carl was an entomologist and mother Margaret a dietitian/nutritionist; her brother Harold preceded her, and sister Ruth arrived a dozen years later.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025

The nuclear family is destroyed; the crime family is falling apart.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 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

This contrasts with the Western nuclear family model, where learning is often centered around parents or teachers in a formalized school setting.

From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024

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