nurture

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The festival is designed to nurture not just comedians but the surrounding community.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

Sakamoto said her coach had told her that she could "nurture a future gold medallist. So maybe you’ll see me as a coach at the Olympics."

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

Many of the other children come from similar economic backgrounds, but all nurture big ambitions for the future.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

"The debate between nature and nurture is a long-standing discussion in both biology and society," says co-first author Wenliang Wang, PhD, a staff scientist in Ecker's lab.

From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026

How could one determine if any particular feature—height or intelligence, say—was the product of nature or nurture?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee