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nurseries

noun

plural of nursery

as in centers

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 preschools

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 nurseries If that's your plan for your landscape, look no further than tropicals -- and right now nurseries and garden centers have plenty of options. —

Arkansas Online, 15 May 2026 Types of Watermelons to Grow from Seed Growing watermelons from seed is the only way to get your hands on difficult-to-find varieties that aren’t sold in nurseries. —

Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 May 2026 The law will ban the planting, selling and distribution of the trees starting in 2028 to give nurseries and planters time to eliminate them from their inventories. —

Jerry Wu, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026 Native tree nurseries produce tens of thousands of seedlings annually, including fruit trees for birds and valuable hardwoods like mahogany. —

Anna Lello-Smith, New York Daily News, 9 May 2026 Local nurseries are another valuable – and often underrated – free resource for diagnosis, Echter said. —

Jamie Siebrase, Denver Post, 8 May 2026 Other perennial species are starting to become more widely available at specialty nurseries including lance leaf blanket flower, Gaillardia aestivalis, which is native to the southeastern United States. —

Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 4 May 2026 At each stop, a contingent of no more than 10 workers and organizers broke from the group, walked inside and pitched whoever was in charge on Planting Justice, explaining what the working conditions are like at the nurseries that supply the retailers’ plants. —

Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 4 May 2026 Tidal marshes are crucial nurseries for young Chinook salmon and a focal point for efforts to bring these fish back from the brink of extinction. —

John Ryan, NPR, 3 May 2026

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That fear, in 2026, centers on how rapid information exchange and artificial intelligence are reshaping human thought into something collective and homogenized.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 May 2026
The late Pope Francis famously stayed away from the big European centers of Christianity during his 12-year pontificate, preferring instead to visit small Catholic communities far from Rome.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 May 2026