Mother Nature

American  

noun

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

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Mother Nature

“But Mother Nature and Father Time remain undefeated, and the ‘deterioration bill’ is now coming due.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

She says that when she played her Eurovision entry, Mother Nature, to her classmates last year, "they just hugged me and were like, 'Girl, this is a hit'."

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

If he was diagnosed with a severe form of cancer or heart failure, Eggerman said he would “take the first exit ramp off that Mother Nature gives me.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

Of course, having to rely on an invention rather than Mother Nature isn’t really what anyone wants.

From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2026

In 1915, Mother Nature added to blacks’ suffering when a tiny insect pest, the boll weevil, spread through the cotton crop, destroying the South’s major source of income.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield