: a family group that consists only of parents and children
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The ensemble includes a nuclear family, group of old friends, an unlikely couple, and Season 1’s Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) — among many more.—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025 In the postwar period, right after the end of the Second World War, there was a culture clash between establishment lifestyle–the man in a gray flannel suit who works in a corporate job and has a conventional kind of nuclear family and white-picket-fence house—and the counterculture.—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2025 And when those divisions occur within nuclear families, the cracks run deep.—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2025 One male and one female form a group with their children, a nuclear family, which can occasionally incorporate a third generation as well.—Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nuclear family
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