Mother Nature

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noun

a personification of the forces of nature as a controlling and regulating maternal being, sometimes creative and caring.

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Today, Lail sees Napa Valley threatened not by microscopic insects or behemoth corporations, but by Mother Nature herself.
Threatened by climate change, a California winemaker switches to carbon farming and hopes more vineyards join|Dave McIntyre|October 8, 2021|Washington Post
Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.
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Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
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But my sources, my young women and their mother, heroically held firm.
I Tried to Warn You About Sleazy Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in 2003|Vicky Ward|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST

I thought about the mother, her fear of the dark, of the harm she feared might come to her daughters.
I Tried to Warn You About Sleazy Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in 2003|Vicky Ward|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Meanwhile two kids were taken from their mother when she flew back to the UK from Turkey.
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There was no doubt thought of his own loss in this question: yet there was, one may hope, a germ of solicitude for the mother too.
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"The Smoker," and "Mother and Daughter," a triptych, are two of her principal pictures.
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Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
This is one of the most striking manifestations of the better side of child-nature and deserves a chapter to itself.
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Of course the expression of this value is modified and characterized by the nature of the thing spoken of.
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