nurture
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His dedication to spending time in Mexico, while inconvenient for your relationship, demonstrates that he knows how to manage and nurture his own happiness and isn’t relying on you to satisfy that need.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
The passionate Welshman dedicated his second award "to the great and good people of Wales, who were as much a nurture as anyone else".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
"But the brain is not a blank slate that gets trained by experience. It is a mix of nature and nurture, and the nature is that pre-wired architecture."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
State-backed funds also wrote checks, heeding Beijing’s call to nurture homegrown AI companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Here is the sole talent I ever dared nurture.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
And as one exceptional son recognizes in another, the difference between how we’re born and what we become is who nurtures us.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
Conventional wisdom now has it that Hollywood no longer creates and nurtures young stars in the way it once did.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025
He identifies quality and nurtures it, especially in players, who are helped by relentless and specific video analysis, with Ollie Watkins a particular beneficiary.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024
It honors the dead by making them alive again and nurtures the living by providing a place to put a daughter’s love and rage.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
The water roars and tumbles below us, sending up a soft spray that nurtures mosses and maidenhair ferns where it falls.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
His task, say people close to the company, will be to guard the unique culture Warren Buffett nurtured to keep everything from candy to railroads to insurance under one roof in a $1 trillion conglomerate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
“Through the generational musical voices that he nurtured, he created the soundtrack to all our lives, his legacy has been with us at all our greatest moments.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
This demonstrated that the neuropeptides were not merely associated with caregiving but could actively influence whether an ant nurtured larvae or went searching for food.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
All three said: "Growth cannot be ordered from the top down. It can only be nurtured from the bottom up."
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
We nurtured ourselves, by ourselves, and protected our hearts even from one another.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
“But the smell and warmth is very nurturing and comforting.”
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
The world’s most valuable company, Nvidia, is nurturing an entirely new asset class to keep chip sales humming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
"She was begging for help," Clancy's former mother-in-law, Susan Clancy, said of a woman she described as a "very nurturing, very loving" mother.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Complicating matters, he has never been particularly generous or nurturing, and he has no spouse, children or other immediate next of kin.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
He had been given an unusual and special reprieve from the committee, and granted an additional year of nurturing before his Naming and Placement.
From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
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