nuclear families

plural of nuclear family

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Recent Examples of nuclear families The Republican party has promised a return to the good ol’ days, with strong nuclear families at the crux and a fight against the declining birth rate. — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026 Multiple titles also chart for Millennials and the Gen Z the evolution of bedrock relations beyond those of nuclear families. — John Hopewell, Variety, 14 Aug. 2026 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. — 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
Noun
  • Another 13 people were wounded on downtown Sacramento’s K Street and 10th Street, in what became the deadliest mass shooting in the city’s history.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
  • Organizers say more than 125,000 people are expected throughout the event, bringing in millions of dollars for the local economy.
    — Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 19 June 2026
Noun
  • Others said the state, by negotiating deals behind closed doors, had excluded Native tribes.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Indigenous tribes adopted names including the drying rice moon, the falling leaves moon and the migrating moon.
    — Dharma Niles, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Rockefeller's vast wealth was always a source of conversation and an undercurrent in his political races.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Democrats made high power bills, clean energy and stricter scrutiny of data center contracts the focus on their races.
    — Kristi Swartz, AJC.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • Lee contributed to more development than his own, eventually selling 20 acres at East Colonial Drive and Bumby Avenue to the folks who’d develop the Colonial Plaza shopping center.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2026
  • And it can be argued, credibly, that no other group on this soil has struggled for freedom, for justice, for equality, and for true democracy as long and as doggedly as Black folks.
    — Kevin Powell, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • That breadth makes the 15-connection allowance useful for households or users managing several types of hardware.
    — StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 7 Nov. 2026
  • The study said Baltimore could attract more than 20,000 additional households if enough housing were built across a range of price points, including affordable and workforce housing.
    — Lauren Breunig, Baltimore Sun, 7 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • The treatment also returned the aging immune system to a more youthful state, including changes to the marrow’s blood-producing tissues.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Breast arterial calcification is calcium buildup in the walls of medium-sized arteries that carry blood through the breast.
    — Matthew Nudy, The Conversation, 5 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • The main reasons are sobering though, with most gains coming from data-center construction and wealth creation for those who own AI-dependent stocks.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Stocks fell in response to the data, led by the interest-rate sensitive tech sector, followed closely by materials and industrial stocks.
    — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 10 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • Twelve years later, both clans have settled in Kingston, New York, that state’s eventual first capital.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Nov. 2026
  • As the two clans battle it out on the field, regardless of who takes home the trophy Lexi may have already won at love.
    — Rachel LaBonte, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2026

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“Nuclear families.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nuclear%20families. Accessed 13 Nov. 2026.

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