nurturance

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Recent Examples of nurturance To some, the primate enclosure offers a nurturance of last resort. Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025 At the same time, male protagonists in dragon-riding fiction by authors like Jane Yolen, Christopher Paolini, and Cressida Cowell often reflected traits like nurturance, kindness, and empathy long associated with women. Rebecca Scofield / Made By History, TIME, 21 Jan. 2025 For my character, her organizing principle is nurturance. Hunter Ingram, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024 Van Gogh had unchained it from its age-old funereal associations and reinvented it as a tour de force of emotional connection and nurturance. Deborah Solomon, New York Times, 11 May 2023 Hank’s father is a famous literary figure, which makes Hank the junior to a senior who offered nurturance and support to other writers but not to his own son. Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023 The discovery of a covert unity and nurturance among separate trees acquires a special resonance against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic. Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021 Fragrance brings joy and self-nurturance. April Long, Town & Country, 13 Dec. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nurturance
Noun
  • How Resources Strengthen Innovation Across Teams Ideas need encouragement and resources.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Fearing immigration consequences, the woman delayed reporting the attack but eventually came forward with a family member’s encouragement.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Oh, and the reports’ authors want a public-education campaign aimed at improving fertility.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
  • However, the study can only show an association and not a direct cause and effect, said Duval, who now directs applied research at CReATe Fertility Centre, a fertility clinic in Toronto.
    Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Podiatrists crafted them specifically to solve the lack of arch support in most shoes.
    Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Thank you to everyone whos been showering so much love and support for the music and movie.
    Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But research shows that structure helps with self-regulation and job stress, contributing to productivity and career success.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The Institute for Coaching Innovation is convinced that the answer is figuring out how to use the productivity of AI and your human touch without having to make a choice between them.
    Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • On top of that, the Wawa Foundation also sends care packages to troops, and the employees can receive tuition assistance.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Discounted membership options are available for young adults and qualifying recipients of government assistance.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In the end, market forces — including the high cost of financing, materials, labor and land — still are key factors in housing construction, and government facilitation can only do so much about that.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
  • These include improvisational problem-solving, risk aptitude, systems thinking, interoperability facilitation, and cognitive orchestration.
    Trond Arne Undheim, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • That same richness is available to you at work.
    Chiara Alzati, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Pesto-Parmesan Croutons add richness to what is typically a light summer meal.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The sport is really just a pretext for a tale of cross-generational mutual aid that cares too much for its characters’ wider lives to take them too often to court.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Senior administration officials have told the Herald that the administration intends to continue supporting the Cuban people and allowing humanitarian aid to flow to the country.
    Nora Gamez Torres, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Nurturance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nurturance. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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