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nursing

adjective as in acting as a nurse

adjective as in gaining nourishment by suckling

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Meanwhile, if you are nursing brutal losses in bitcoin, here are a few things that might console you a little bit.

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Then, my husband’s mother died alone in a nursing home on the other side of the country.

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Inside a dim New Orleans-style bar in Hollywood, dozens of strangers mingle under the thump of pop music while nursing complimentary cocktails.

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Former chief nursing officer in Northern Ireland Professor Martin Bradley said there is "nothing very new in all of this".

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More than 45 percent of women worked outside the home during the war, producing ammunition, building ships and airplanes, driving trains, and nursing the wounded.

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