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have nursed

  • present perfect of nurse.

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Most of them have nursed injuries over the past couple of seasons.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 17, 2025

But fellow moms say they have nursed their kids to sleep for a year or more, and they turned out fine.

From Slate Aug. 5, 2019

"A lot of people have nursed a secret admiration for him, because he's like Captain Mainwaring meets William Gladstone."

From BBC Apr. 3, 2015

Because Collins, as big and as tough as they come in the N.B.A., as Adrian Wojnarowski writes on Yahoo.com, plows through just about every stereotype anyone might have nursed.

From New York Times Apr. 30, 2013

She had him at her mercy, and could have nursed him day and night.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White