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Humans are trained from a young age to react to and recognize rhythm: rocked as infants, introduced to children’s songs and nursery rhymes as babies and exposed to the music and dance of our cultures throughout our lives.
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Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2026
Into the mix for our podcasters are children’s nursery rhymes, playing them backwards, and getting unsettling demonic messages, which Tuason throws in with the continuing plotline of this couple’s pending terror.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 25 Jan. 2026
In doing the work, Merchant learned that few students in her Head Start program were aware of Mother Goose, much less the nursery rhymes associated with her.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 13 Jan. 2026
And despite that famous nursery rhyme, woodchucks don’t like wood but get labeled a pest because of their hole-digging and habit of chewing on flowers and vegetable garden plants.
—Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026
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Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2026
Into the mix for our podcasters are children’s nursery rhymes, playing them backwards, and getting unsettling demonic messages, which Tuason throws in with the continuing plotline of this couple’s pending terror.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 25 Jan. 2026
In doing the work, Merchant learned that few students in her Head Start program were aware of Mother Goose, much less the nursery rhymes associated with her.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 13 Jan. 2026
And despite that famous nursery rhyme, woodchucks don’t like wood but get labeled a pest because of their hole-digging and habit of chewing on flowers and vegetable garden plants.
—Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for nursery rhyme
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“Nursery rhyme.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nursery%20rhyme. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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