nurture
verb (used with object)
to feed and protect.
will nurture
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future tenseof nurture.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Instead of punishing a child’s desire to achieve, we will nurture it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
Peer counselors, often in recovery themselves, will nurture this sense of understanding and belonging.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 23, 2023
Which sounds reasonable: We want to make sure the stuff we feed our babies will nurture rather than endanger them.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2022
Human beings everywhere will nurture a sense of possessing several partial and overlapping identities while recognizing their primary allegiance to the human species.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022
Mother Earth will nurture the little seed until the cold winter has passed and the warm sunshine comes again to give each clod its "stir of might."
From Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts by James, Juliet Helena Lumbard
