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
Based on Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth, the surrealist musical follows one nuclear family across thousands of years and three apocalypses.
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025
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.
—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
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025
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.
—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
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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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The children now see Morales, her husband and their three daughters as their extended family.—
Laura Rodríguez Presa,
Chicago Tribune,
25 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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Adding to the diverse mix were hired hands from tribes such as the Comanche, Cheyenne and Apache, who became unrivaled horse whisperers long before settlers arrived on their lands.—
Foreign Correspondent,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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Stephenie and Colby back on the same tribe all these years later?—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Feb. 2026
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Courtney brought Mystic resident Lee Burdette Williams, whose household was affected by the expiration of enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits.—
Lisa Hagen,
Hartford Courant,
25 Feb. 2026
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At the same time, income inequality in the Valley has risen at twice the national rate, the index found, as the top 10% of households — excluding the region’s 66 billionaires — now own about three-quarters of the region’s cash and liquid assets, including stock investments.—
Ethan Varian,
Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2026
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The coalition parties together hold only 66 of the lower house of parliament’s 150 seats, so Jetten will have to negotiate with opposition lawmakers to find support for every piece of legislation his government wants to pass.—
Mike Corder,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2026
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At the house of Giorgio Armani, legacy has moved from backdrop to headline.—
Tiziana Cardini,
Vogue,
24 Feb. 2026
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Much of the Kim clan’s once-opulent house had burned down after being looted, Kim says.—
Margaret Heidenry,
Vanity Fair,
24 Feb. 2026
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The Grand Jury Prize went to Emin Alper’s Salvation, a drama that charts the escalation of violence in an isolated village community in the Turkish mountains following the return of an exiled clan.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Feb. 2026
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Aedes aegypti zero in on humans and tend to poke multiples times before taking blood.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Feb. 2026
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The authors point out collagen has multiple roles within the human body, including supporting skin cells, protecting organs, helping with blood clotting and more.—
Sara Moniuszko,
USA Today,
27 Feb. 2026
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The country began a starkly successful race for ingenuity and hi-tech to survive; the pace of change and implementation unparalleled in a six-week innovation cycle of the front line – the time in which a new idea for killing appears.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
24 Feb. 2026
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Gardon pointed out that Newsom was speaking to a mixed-race audience during the conversation with Dickens.—
Taryn Luna,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2026
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“Nuclear family.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nuclear%20family. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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