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as in center
a place or environment that favors the development of something
ancient Greece is often cited as the nursery of democracy
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as in preschool
a school for children who are generally less than five years old
are asking parents not to bring their children to the nursery if they have the flu virus
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Recent Examples of nursery
Native tree nurseries produce tens of thousands of seedlings annually, including fruit trees for birds and valuable hardwoods like mahogany.
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Anna Lello-Smith, New York Daily News, 9 May 2026
On Thursday, tiny kittens at the San Diego Humane Society’s kitten nursery were curled up close together, sleeping.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2026
Local nurseries are another valuable – and often underrated – free resource for diagnosis, Echter said.
—Jamie Siebrase, Denver Post, 8 May 2026
The choice of tailoring, constructed from the designer’s signature stretch-accommodating cady fabric, afforded the princess enough freedom of movement to get hands-on with the young children and families gathered in the nursery environments of the university’s early years education department.
—Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 7 May 2026
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Anna Lello-Smith, New York Daily News, 9 May 2026
On Thursday, tiny kittens at the San Diego Humane Society’s kitten nursery were curled up close together, sleeping.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2026
Local nurseries are another valuable – and often underrated – free resource for diagnosis, Echter said.
—Jamie Siebrase, Denver Post, 8 May 2026
The choice of tailoring, constructed from the designer’s signature stretch-accommodating cady fabric, afforded the princess enough freedom of movement to get hands-on with the young children and families gathered in the nursery environments of the university’s early years education department.
—Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 7 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nursery
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But Patrick Mahomes, who tore his ACL last December, is ahead of schedule and will likely be under center when these two teams square off in early November.—
Antwan Staley,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2026
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The tension spilled into election issues, including accusations that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco seized ballots in a voter‑fraud investigation, now at the center of a legal fight with the state attorney general.—
James Ward,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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This past week in Queens, New York, multiple Jewish homes, a synagogue and a Jewish community center housing a preschool were vandalized with swastikas and antisemitic graffiti, raising alarm among residents.—
Ariella Noveck,
FOXNews.com,
10 May 2026
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The school, one of the district’s final two parent participation preschools, was identified for closure because of the district’s ongoing fiscal crisis.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
8 May 2026
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The birds are known to leave their eggs in other females’ nests—outsourcing the parenting of the young to another bird.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
10 May 2026
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Defending nests is not a behavior such as is done by social wasps and hornets.—
Pamm Cooper,
Hartford Courant,
9 May 2026
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Zaragoza had dropped out of seminary to join the army but was refused admission.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
4 May 2026
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Yeshivat Maharat, the first Orthodox seminary to ordain women as rabbis, is in New York.—
Michal Raucher,
The Conversation,
30 Apr. 2026
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Since the seventies, the famed Nuyorican Poets Café has blossomed on the Lower East Side as an essential hothouse for arts movements of many stripes, perhaps most crucially as a launching pad for an emergent literati straddling the realms of soul and hip-hop.—
Sheldon Pearce,
New Yorker,
15 May 2026
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But the hothouse of the Big Apple jazz scene and the eminent conservatory couldn’t keep her contained.—
Andrew Gilbert,
Mercury News,
7 May 2026
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“Nursery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nursery. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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