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How should families think about the definition of family, which has long been thought of as the nuclear family?
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Angela Haupt, Time, 14 Nov. 2025
This nuclear family was yet another way Major served as a possibility model for trans women in a world that told them love and biological family are less of an option.
—Tre’vell Anderson, Them., 24 Oct. 2025
The Sopranos and Succession were also about the flawed nuclear family struggling against modernity.
—Grace Byron, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
The series was revived several times in the 1970s and ’80s, making the typical nuclear family that happens to live in outer space familiar to several generations of viewers.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
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Angela Haupt, Time, 14 Nov. 2025
This nuclear family was yet another way Major served as a possibility model for trans women in a world that told them love and biological family are less of an option.
—Tre’vell Anderson, Them., 24 Oct. 2025
The Sopranos and Succession were also about the flawed nuclear family struggling against modernity.
—Grace Byron, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
The series was revived several times in the 1970s and ’80s, making the typical nuclear family that happens to live in outer space familiar to several generations of viewers.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for nuclear family
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“Nuclear family.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuclear%20family. Accessed 19 Nov. 2025.
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