: a family group that consists only of parents and children
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Life Insurance Life insurance is usually what people purchase to financially safeguard their nuclear families’ future in the event of their death.—Jasmine Browley, Essence, 18 Feb. 2025 Local regulation compounds these challenges — some communities still have outdated laws that enforce traditional nuclear family living arrangements.—Rachel Cohen, Vox, 3 Feb. 2025 With its large nuclear families and religious lifestyles, the state is a hotbed for the lucrative family blogging industry.—CBS News, 26 Mar. 2025 Despite all the fronting, Saxon isn’t taken seriously by most of his nuclear family, which probably extends to a lot of people elsewhere in his life.—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 16 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nuclear family
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