Nuclear family
Nuclear family noun - A family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner.
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Parents and nuclear family are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Parents" instead a noun phrase "Nuclear family".
Parents
Nuclear family and parents are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Nuclear family" instead a noun "Parents".
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- people and nuclear family
- people and parents
- group and nuclear family
- group and parents
- folk and nuclear family
- folk and parents
- folks and nuclear family
- folks and parents
- family and nuclear family
- family and parents
- kin and nuclear family
- kin and parents
- kindred and nuclear family
- kindred and parents
Both terms in one sentence
- The Decapodeans are a weird subversion: one episode establishes that parents die while mating, yet Zoidberg repeatedly alludes to being raised in a nuclear family and having various living relatives.
Source: Abusive Alien Parents -
Usagi's parents in Sailor Moon don't have a big role, but they are portrayed as a loving, typical nuclear family.
Source: Good Parents - The de Claremonts are more or less like a nuclear family with two parents, several siblings all sired by those parents, and grandchildren (sired by the siblings), and great-grandchilden.
Source: I Love You, Vampire Son
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