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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
The shift is part of a broader change in how parents think about the nursery.
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Wyles Daniel,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
The paper notes that police sent officers to schools and nurseries where the artist’s children may have been in attendance.
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Brian Boucher,
ARTnews.com,
17 June 2026
The graphic shapes add a playful note without feeling overly themed in a nursery, striking a balance between kid-friendly and design-forward.
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Briana Feigon,
Architectural Digest,
17 June 2026
Now, it was discovered on grape plants sold at Costco stores in California's Central Valley, stemming from a wholesale nursery in Fresno County.
—
Carmela Karcher,
CBS News,
28 May 2026
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Wyles Daniel,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
The paper notes that police sent officers to schools and nurseries where the artist’s children may have been in attendance.
—
Brian Boucher,
ARTnews.com,
17 June 2026
The graphic shapes add a playful note without feeling overly themed in a nursery, striking a balance between kid-friendly and design-forward.
—
Briana Feigon,
Architectural Digest,
17 June 2026
Now, it was discovered on grape plants sold at Costco stores in California's Central Valley, stemming from a wholesale nursery in Fresno County.
—
Carmela Karcher,
CBS News,
28 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for nursery
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nursery
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The story begins with the historic building designed by Edward Durrell Stone in the 1960s as the World Trade Center, with a cruciform plan that nodded to the four corners of the compass and New Orleans’ place as a center of international commerce.
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All that was missing from the game was a rusty shiv in the center circle.
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Days after the Goleta get-together, Santa Barbara dad Eric Drachman became a celebrity at the preschool of his daughter, Noa, who is soon to be 3.
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Beginning in the late 1960s, a group of researchers conducted a series of experiments on children at a local preschool.
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The birds use calls and behaviors that help direct people toward wild bees’ nests, while humans respond with their own vocal signals during the search.
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Bald eagle pairs usually mate for life, returning to the same nest every year.
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Stracke, who's also a mom to son James, 19, and daughter Porter, 24, revealed that her eldest son intends to enter a seminary and join the priesthood.
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The former seminary's crypt now houses the Wine Grotto.
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Persian or English hothouse cucumbers, cut into bite-size pieces, 12 oz.
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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.
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“Nursery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nursery. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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