nursed

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Nursed in the heyday of neoliberalism with an aversion to earnestness, the mind-set of a cosmopolitan Generation X made little room for labor interests and imagined that unions were for people who carried lunch pails.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2022

Nursed by the great fortunes and public pride of Astors, Vanderbilts, Morgans and Rockefellers, its aspirations to own ancient and Old World art have been well satisfied in the last half century.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nursed by the faithful Beauvoir, he spent his last years in seclusion in Paris or wintering in Italy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nursed her like a brick, and the old Mater lay there by the hour staring at Cass.

From Lady Cassandra by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Nursed with the dew of tears, though low in ruin laid.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828 by Various