as in extended family
the part of a family that includes only the father, mother, and children
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Recent Examples of nuclear family
The pronatalist perspective generally supports government intervention to encourage procreation and is rooted in a belief that modern culture has failed to celebrate the nuclear family.
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Stephanie Armour, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
The nuclear family grieved privately at each milestone, joined, in time, by new members of the family, like Caroline's husband, Edwin Schlossberg, and their three children.
—Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025
Looking to the 1950s nuclear family, Taubman envisioned moments of vulnerability behind the white picket fence.
—Ari Stark, Footwear News, 25 Nov. 2025
How should families think about the definition of family, which has long been thought of as the nuclear family?
—Angela Haupt, Time, 14 Nov. 2025
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Stephanie Armour, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
The nuclear family grieved privately at each milestone, joined, in time, by new members of the family, like Caroline's husband, Edwin Schlossberg, and their three children.
—Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025
Looking to the 1950s nuclear family, Taubman envisioned moments of vulnerability behind the white picket fence.
—Ari Stark, Footwear News, 25 Nov. 2025
How should families think about the definition of family, which has long been thought of as the nuclear family?
—Angela Haupt, Time, 14 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nuclear family
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The single-season series centered around her father and his relationships with Whitney, Bobbi Kristina and his extended family over the course of six months.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
1 Feb. 2026
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Tim is, quite simply, the beating heart of our wild and wonderful extended family.—
KiMi Robinson,
USA Today,
22 Jan. 2026
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In November 2021, Johnson brought his blended family together for the premiere of his film Red Notice.—
Kelsie Gibson,
Peoplemag,
8 Feb. 2023
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Dietrich, 36, is now a stay-at-home mother to her blended family of four teenagers and a 17-month-old.—
Megan Leonhardt,
Fortune,
3 Jan. 2023
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Although some Indigenous tribes in the rainforests were said to have used batrachotoxin from dart frogs for hunting, scientist haven't found any evidence that epibatidine was ever used for that purpose.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
15 Feb. 2026
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Others may study game tape on the competition to prepare scouting reports on their future tribe mates.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Feb. 2026
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Takaichi proposes a two-year sales tax cut on food products to ease household living costs.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Feb. 2026
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What piles up now melts gradually through spring and summer, feeding rivers, farms, and household taps long after the clouds clear.—
James Ward,
USA Today,
18 Feb. 2026
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Without my father’s booming presence, our house was strangely quiet.—
Faith Karimi,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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Many public spaces within the Mountain House have ADA-compliant routes to enter, exit, and move around the house freely.—
Katie Mathews,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 Feb. 2026
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The hunt for Brach continued for years while law enforcement officers tracked down intersecting leads that led them to Matlick and a clan of criminal horsemen associated with Brach’s friend Richard Bailey.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2026
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Mani Peninsula, Greece Stretching south from the Peloponnese, the Mani Peninsula feels defiantly separate from the rest of Greece with its stone tower houses, built for clan defense, rising from a stark landscape of scrub, sea, and sky.—
Rob Crossan,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 Feb. 2026
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There was blood spatter on her front stoop, and the blood turned out to be hers.—
Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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The social media star, who studied biomedical engineering, also gleefully unveiled the math behind an ocean of synthetic blood — two pumps running for eight hours at 190 gallons per minute.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
13 Feb. 2026
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Needing to prep for her race, Humphries spent her first night away from Aulden this week.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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City Councilmember Nithya Raman, who is challenging Bass in the upcoming mayor’s race, is among those calling for Wasserman to step away.—
Dakota Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Nuclear family.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nuclear%20family. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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