1
: the profession of a nurse
schools of nursing
2
: the duties of a nurse
proper nursing is difficult work
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She has been employed in nursing for several years now.
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Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
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Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
Pregnant and nursing women often need more to support fetal skeletal development.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 24 Apr. 2026
The 33-year-old nursing student and mother of two had been stabbed dozens of times and strangled inside her home in Tonawanda that year.
—ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026
The 2025 grads most likely to have found work soon after college majored in agriculture and environmental science, nursing, history or philosophy, and education.
—Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for nursing
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“Nursing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nursing. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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