as in blended families
the part of a family that includes only the father, mother, and children
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Recent Examples of nuclear families
Built up in the 1870s as a resort for nuclear families, Fire Island was destroyed by a hurricane in the 1930s, which quickly chased away its upper-class vacationers.
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Air Mail, 23 May 2026
Black nuclear families, like the one Cardi B (who is Afro-Latina) was part of for the past seven years, are actually on the rise, according to Christina Cross, a professor, researcher, and sociologist at Harvard University who has studied this subject extensively.
—Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
Cats have a one-in-seven chance of harboring the disease, a likelihood that increases to one-in-four for pig and rhesus macaque nuclear families.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025
Air Mail, 23 May 2026
Black nuclear families, like the one Cardi B (who is Afro-Latina) was part of for the past seven years, are actually on the rise, according to Christina Cross, a professor, researcher, and sociologist at Harvard University who has studied this subject extensively.
—Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
Cats have a one-in-seven chance of harboring the disease, a likelihood that increases to one-in-four for pig and rhesus macaque nuclear families.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nuclear families
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Other tribes offer similar plates.—
Suzanne Wright,
USA Today,
2 June 2026
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Anthropologist David Samson, the book’s author and an associate professor at the University of Toronto, has scaled trees to study chimpanzee beds and visited remote tribes to understand how the story of human sleep unfolded.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
1 June 2026
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That’s why close races can shift long after the last voter leaves a polling place.—
James Ward,
USA Today,
4 June 2026
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Voters across California decided the top two candidates to advance to the general election in races for governor and other statewide offices and Congress.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
3 June 2026
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Millions of Californians — not just low-income folks — are going to feel the effects, whether through a loss of insurance, fewer providers able to keep their doors open, or rising premiums and costs.—
Anita Chabria,
Mercury News,
3 June 2026
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First 15,000 folks through Truist Park gates tonight get a Drake Baldwin Braves hockey jersey.—
Tyler Estep,
AJC.com,
3 June 2026
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The findings come as more low and middle-income households feel the pressure of higher housing and food costs, and experience higher effective inflation rates.—
Jacqueline Munis,
Fortune,
28 May 2026
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Many households have struggled in the face of rising prices for necessities like groceries and gas due to the Iran war.—
Jessica Dickler,
CNBC,
28 May 2026
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For example, people drinking water containing PFOS will typically have levels 50 to 100 times higher in their blood than were measured in the water.—
Carrie McDonough,
The Conversation,
29 May 2026
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Among humans, Ebola spreads through contact with blood, bodily fluids or the bodies of infected people who died.—
Jane Weaver,
NBC news,
29 May 2026
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Quantum computing stocks have surged in 2026 — rising about 20% on average — as investors bet on the technology’s long‑term potential.—
Peter Cohan,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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In practice, Teng explained, this means customers will soon be able to create a synthetic version of certain stocks by converting them into a digital token on the company’s BNB blockchain.—
Jeff John Roberts,
Fortune,
1 June 2026
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The auteur can now cross another genre off his bucket list with The Samurai and the Prisoner (Kokurojo), a stately and rather stagy historical mystery set during the 16th century, at a time when warring clans fought and outmaneuvered each other for control of the land.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
24 May 2026
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Our story begins in the winter of that year, as Murashige — along with his wife Chiyoho (Yuriko Yoshitaka) and the small handful of clans loyal to their family — barricade themselves behind the peripets of Arioka Castle and wait for death to arrive at their doorstep.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
20 May 2026
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“Nuclear families.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nuclear%20families. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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