nurture
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"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
Rounds three, four, and five yielded backups and talent to nurture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Hunnam believes that in Gein’s case it was a combination of nature and nurture that shaped him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Claudia’s version of nurture gone wrong may just have them all beat, but yeah, she didn’t get her own book.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Instead, by a variety of adaptations they utilize their victims for the nurture of their own young.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
"Hey, who knows what's around the corner, but pop music nurtures me... my passion for music is greater than ever."
From BBC ● May 20, 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 correctly wagered that allowing the audience to sit with one of his families inside their living space as they sort life challenges nurtures understanding and empathy.
From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2025
Moreover, nature-rich settings bring out “prosocial behavior” — helping, sharing and caring for others — which nurtures human connections.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
It is someone who raises and nurtures you.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
A university lab nurtured the computer scientists who are using ingenuity and imitation to chase down Anthropic and OpenAI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
There's no doubt during the 20 months since his arrival at Villa's Bodymoor Heath training ground that Hemmings has been nurtured in the strict requirements of 'Emery Ball'.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 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
More: Hardcore gamers nurtured Nvidia and the AI boom.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
From the outset, some in the Washington shell house felt that by agreeing to go to Cal, Ebright had betrayed the institution that had nurtured him.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
He reduces Bourdain to a zygote who simply needed enough nurturing to become his older, cooler self, when he could, instead, read between the lines to find what makes young Tony special.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 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
They came to us fragile and old, and our nurturing turned back their biological clocks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
After her visit to Ipswich last year, Nandy described the town as a "model" for upcoming musicians, with "an entire ecosystem" dedicated to nurturing new talent.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Every time she cut one, she would glare at me, and I don’t think she was thinking thoughts about nurturing one of her students in wisdom and learning.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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