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Some of us have mothered, all of us have tended to the needs of others; we’ve provided shelter, radiated warmth, loved and moved one another in mysterious ways — and we will do it again.

From New York Times • May 3, 2020

We are mothers, we have mothered our babies and all of our children will forever be a part of who we are.

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2015

The party's economic program sounds like something the U.S.'s National Association of Manufacturers might have mothered.

From Time Magazine Archive

She would have mothered it, cherished it, given them a hundred opportunities of exchanging for clasps and whispers the chilly demeanour they must bear one to another.

From Once Aboard the Lugger by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)

Over your forest and field and lea, From the windy deeps that have mothered me, To the heart of one who cares.

From Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country by Heyward, DuBose