nuclear families

plural of nuclear family

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Recent Examples of nuclear families The Republican party has promised a return to the good ol’ days, with strong nuclear families at the crux and a fight against the declining birth rate. — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026 Multiple titles also chart for Millennials and the Gen Z the evolution of bedrock relations beyond those of nuclear families. — John Hopewell, Variety, 14 Aug. 2026 Built up in the 1870s as a resort for nuclear families, Fire Island was destroyed by a hurricane in the 1930s, which quickly chased away its upper-class vacationers. — Air Mail, 23 May 2026 Black nuclear families, like the one Cardi B (who is Afro-Latina) was part of for the past seven years, are actually on the rise, according to Christina Cross, a professor, researcher, and sociologist at Harvard University who has studied this subject extensively. — Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025 Cats have a one-in-seven chance of harboring the disease, a likelihood that increases to one-in-four for pig and rhesus macaque nuclear families. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nuclear families
Noun
  • Another 13 people were wounded on downtown Sacramento’s K Street and 10th Street, in what became the deadliest mass shooting in the city’s history.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
  • Organizers say more than 125,000 people are expected throughout the event, bringing in millions of dollars for the local economy.
    — Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 19 June 2026
Noun
  • With a Scott Dunn kids’ club that’s slicker than most London nurseries, the tribes here fluctuate with the school term timetable.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Van Sickle said 11 member tribes rely on treaty rights to harvest resources such as maple sap, cedar boughs and other forest products, essential for guaranteeing traditional ways of life on indigenous lands.
    — Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Heading into the midterm elections, AI now ranks as a key issue in races that will help decide control of both chambers of Congress.
    — Jeff Masonand Michael Shepard Bloomberg, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Prominent Democratic candidates in Iowa, Wisconsin and Kansas have also stated a preference for Harris to steer clear of their races.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • On second thought, that seems like an expensive experiment to undertake with uncertain results, but the folks at Brown-Forman decided to try something similar.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Just as the weather begins to cool in Kansas City, Pitbull and Lil Jon helped folks enjoy some summer fun one more time.
    — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 4 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Much of those losses were uninsured, leaving the losses to be absorbed by governments, businesses, or households.
    — Justin Worland, Time, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The majority said their households, like Goodfriend’s and Fortich’s, are struggling to get by as-is.
    — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • How Doctors Diagnose and Treat It Health care providers use the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to classify trypanophobia as a specific phobia of the blood-injection-injury type.
    — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The kids age normally, can eat food and drink blood, and have inherited some of their dad’s special powers.
    — Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Step Back Unlike stocks and bonds, whose prices are quoted on screens across Wall Street, managers of private lenders have broad leeway to value their loans, with varying degrees of input from third-party services.
    — Ellen DiMauro, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Sipahimalani noted that roughly half the stocks in the Russell 3000 were at least 20% below their June highs, highlighting the degree to which the market's resilience has depended on a small group of winners.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Ali Mahmoud Ali, the group's Sudan analyst, said that the latest clashes risk bringing in more Nuba clans into the fight and could increase divisions across South Kordofan, where communities are facing an already dire humanitarian situation.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026
  • All Palestinian clans and families in Gaza would also be a target for disarmament, which would have an impact on the future of Hamas and Palestinian armed struggle.
    — Mkhaimar Abusada, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2026

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“Nuclear families.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nuclear%20families. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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