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as in healing
to attend to the needs and comforts of
willingly lent a hand to nurse his grandmother in her final years, helping her get from one room to the other and making sure she was warm
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as in suckling
to give milk to from the breast
a new mother's decision to nurse her baby
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as in having
to keep in one's mind or heart
he continues to nurse a tender affection for his first girlfriend
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as in spoiling
to treat with great or excessive care
nursed his sprained ankle for the rest of the week
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as in raising
to bring to maturity through care and education
as foster parents they accepted and nursed 16 needy children over the years
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as in promoting
to help the growth or development of
her teachers did much to nurse her literary talent
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as in conserving
to use or give out in stingy amounts
he carefully nursed his energy during the marathon so that he would have something left for the final stretch
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Recent Examples of nursing
Brandon Aiyuk is recovering from a torn ACL, and up until recently, Jauan Jennings had been nursing a calf issue.
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Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
Mission Viejo was playing without Miami committed receiver Vance Spafford, who is nursing an ankle injury.
—Michael Huntley, Oc Register, 6 Sep. 2025
But Waller has been nursing a hip injury since joining the team, and didn’t participate in a single training camp practice.
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
In the accompanying image, Baz is lying on her side, nursing her son in a low cut bra while holding a bottle in her free hand.
—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 3 Sep. 2025
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Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
Mission Viejo was playing without Miami committed receiver Vance Spafford, who is nursing an ankle injury.
—Michael Huntley, Oc Register, 6 Sep. 2025
But Waller has been nursing a hip injury since joining the team, and didn’t participate in a single training camp practice.
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
In the accompanying image, Baz is lying on her side, nursing her son in a low cut bra while holding a bottle in her free hand.
—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nursing
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The country is home to its own richly-layered history of healing techniques and traditions dating back thousands of years to indigenous people groups like the Aztecs and Mayas.—
Carley Rojas Ávila,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Robert Redford directed this 1998 drama about a mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) trying to help her daughter overcome trauma from a riding accident by bringing her to Montana, where Redford's rancher has a gift for healing horses and human hearts.—
Alex Apatoff,
PEOPLE,
16 Sep. 2025
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The best rooms look out over the sea and the rugged peaks of Cavall Bernat—a view shared by the rooftop restaurant, where local meats star in dishes like suckling porc negre and pastry stuffed with guinea fowl in almond sauce.—
Benjamin Kemper,
Saveur,
13 Aug. 2025
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She was called up to the main roster after having title reigns with the NXT Women's Championship and the North American Women's Championship.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Sep. 2025
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Would Americans have been better served by having more ready access to the evidence of what political violence looks like?—
Time,
Time,
20 Sep. 2025
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Without spoiling the actual ending, you guys do not die.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
12 Sep. 2025
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Without spoiling anyone’s fate, suffice to say the movie ends on a cliffhanger, as a favorite character teeters between life and death.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
12 Sep. 2025
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The most common tradeoff is raising interest rates to slow the economy and reduce inflation or, if jobs seem in trouble, lowering interest rates to increase economic activity.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes.com,
20 Sep. 2025
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There has been a massive hotel boom as of late, with new properties entering the scene and raising the already sky-high bar set by icons like Claridge’s and The Savoy.—
Nicole Trilivas,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Sep. 2025
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The turn of the century saw the advent of rhizobial soil inoculants for improving legume growth, with the FDA promoting such applications.—
Anna Marija Helt,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Sep. 2025
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That political violence and policy violence are contrary to establishing justice, contrary to providing for the common defense contract, promoting the general welfare, contrary to ensuring domestic tranquility and contrast to equal protection under the law.—
Michel Martin,
NPR,
17 Sep. 2025
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Sure, there are certain benefits to hanging your sweaters—conserving drawer and shelf space, easy access, and the ability to better assess your inventory, to name a few.—
Patricia Shannon,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Sep. 2025
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By extending sensor reach while conserving power, technologies like Wi-Fi HaLow can help broaden access to real-time environmental data, especially in areas where traditional networks fall short.—
Michael De Nil,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Really, the album is about tiring of mothering men who are great in bed but lack crucial social skills.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Nursing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nursing. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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