I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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carefully
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And what have I become, with my white house, and my carefully nurtured life which now seems so self-regarding?
■ NOUN
child
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For those who knew, nurtured and loved the children involved, it must be nothing short of emotional torture.
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There are no guarantees, no matter how much you nurture your children .
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The task for parents is to nurture their children toward this academic self-sufficiency.
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I do, however, believe we must recognize the enormous psychological resistance to the idea that fathers can nurture their children .
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We also believe that certain settings and certain kinds of support can help parents form these bonds and nurture their children successfully.
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Even then he is dependent on the woman to love and nurture his child .
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What of gay and lesbian adults who want to love and nurture a child ?
man
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He advocates ways of limiting men's role in child welfare services, and says men should practice nurturing each other.
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The men dream of nurturing and consoling; the women want the right to be tough and child-free.
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Why should we force men to nurture if nurturing is so difficult for sheen?
relationship
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The impish Forrester scribbles pedagogic remarks all over Jamal's unformed jottings and a sparky, mutually nurturing relationship gets going.
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He has nurtured close relationships with presidents of both parties.
talent
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Jabelman was privately educated, and had nurtured his talent as a painter at art school.
■ VERB
need
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However, such a development would need nurturing , and there are few people with adequate expertise to nurture it.
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But it needs to be nurtured .
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Schools also need to nurture good citizens and people who can understand and appreciate the world around them.
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Children and adolescents need experiences nurturing and providing care for smaller children and babies to prepare them for parenthood.
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Old growth trees or persons are nurturers; the young saplings planted to replace them need nurturing .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It is important to nurture potential in your employees.
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Reading aloud nurtures a love of books in children.
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The goal of the economic policies is to create jobs and nurture new industries.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A delicate plant, the Pinot Noir is difficult to nurture through the freezing cold winters of Champagne.
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From when I was very young, my father had nurtured a love of art in me.
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Giap was nurtured in this roil of rebellion.
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He wanted to make people aware of how beautiful the fish were and why they should be nurtured.
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I was nurturing this comforting thought when I turned into a large assembly room with numbered doors leading from it.
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In the I980s, the talk was all about developing, nurturing, and growing.
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One nurtures the plants and selects only the best varieties, discarding the rest.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I have never been sure if it was nature or nurture .
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In other words, it is no longer nature versus nurture .
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She is creative of life and ongoing nurture .
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That nurture is more important than nature seems to be borne out by a study published in Nature in 1989.
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The antagonism between Nature and nurture controls their fate.
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This is known as the nature nurture controversy.
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With time, you can learn how to influence favorably this interplay of nature and nurture in your child.