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  • noun Plural form of cradle.

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Examples

  • We'll visit what I call "cradles of innovation" all over the place -- in education, health care, and energy -- mini-ecosystems where innovators and pioneers are taking resources and capital and using it to improve the world.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dylan Ratigan 2012

  • We'll visit what I call "cradles of innovation" all over the place -- in education, health care, and energy -- mini-ecosystems where innovators and pioneers are taking resources and capital and using it to improve the world.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dylan Ratigan 2012

  • We'll visit what I call "cradles of innovation" all over the place -- in education, health care, and energy -- mini-ecosystems where innovators and pioneers are taking resources and capital and using it to improve the world.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dylan Ratigan 2012

  • Proper exercise includes riding a mule, slow walking, and for very old men, being rocked "very gently in cradles because as they return to the age of children we have to give them the same kind of exercise."

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • What impact did the rise of city-states in Mesopotamia and the other so-called cradles of civilization, like the Indus Valley and the Yangzte River basin, have on zombies?

    Archaeology of the Undead 2006

  • Freeing the two nova bombs from their cradles was another thing.

    The Forever War Haldeman, Joe 1975

  • Freeing the two nova bombs from their cradles was another thing.

    The Forever War Haldeman, Joe 1975

  • "Muslims (there) get the best opportunity and are better off than they are in so-called cradles of Left-Islamist politics, say Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh or West Bengal," it said.

    Analysis 2010

  • 'The cradles are a premier facility with each costing about Rs. 150 million excluding the land price.

    India eNews 2008

  • He poured himself a whisky and splashed in the soda, making certain with long habit that both bottles went back into their respective "cradles" before be closed the liquor cabinet.

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

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