nurturance
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“What they’re not realizing is that aggression nurturance is empathic. It’s a nature-based approach that builds respect, maturation and resilience.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2023
These campaigns drew upon and reinforced the intimate associations between milk, the Midwestern landscape, and maternal nurturance and child development.
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2021
The casualties tend to be those people who lack such nurturance and access.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2021
Lori Birrell, the university’s historical manuscripts librarian, described Anthony’s nurturance of Avery as “a side of Anthony that we don’t really see in a lot of scholarly work on this movement.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2014
After a few days at Hearth- side, I feel the service ethic kick in like a shot of oxytocin, the nurturance hormone.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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