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To some, the primate enclosure offers a nurturance of last resort.—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025 At the same time, male protagonists in dragon-riding fiction by authors like Jane Yolen, Christopher Paolini, and Cressida Cowell often reflected traits like nurturance, kindness, and empathy long associated with women.—Rebecca Scofield / Made By History, TIME, 21 Jan. 2025 For my character, her organizing principle is nurturance.—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024 Van Gogh had unchained it from its age-old funereal associations and reinvented it as a tour de force of emotional connection and nurturance.—Deborah Solomon, New York Times, 11 May 2023 Hank’s father is a famous literary figure, which makes Hank the junior to a senior who offered nurturance and support to other writers but not to his own son.—Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023 The discovery of a covert unity and nurturance among separate trees acquires a special resonance against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic.—Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021 Fragrance brings joy and self-nurturance.—April Long, Town & Country, 13 Dec. 2020
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