Definition of "cradles" [cradles]

• Plural form of cradle. (noun)

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• "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."
• "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.""
• "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?"