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Discover Ludwig“being nourished” is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone receiving essential sustenance or growth, either literal or figurative. For example, "The company is being nourished by its loyal customers."
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The thick pine grove along the sea is being nourished by the fresh water.
He was being nourished through a feeding tube because throat cancer had made it so difficult to swallow.
Although they certainly wouldn't put it this way, I think their spirits have grown through being nourished by the mere presence of wild things and vistas, and the absence of bustle and artifice.
"We've been lumped together as 'the third world.' But in fact, the hybrid culture of our age is being nourished by 'outsiders' of all kinds -- Asians, Africans, the peoples of the Americas.
The image of family members at day's end being nourished and nourishing one another, a refuge against whatever the outside world has loosed upon them, tugs at the heart.
In some the eggs are abundantly supplied with yolk and merely hatch in the ovary (ovoviviparous); in others the eggs have little yolk, the young hatching at a relatively undeveloped state and being nourished by a placenta-like structure of the ovary (viviparous).
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John, who is largely immobile, is nourished through a feeding tube; Maria drinks liquid nourishment.
"Ali was nourished by people,' Simon writes; in return, his presence was a nourishment to others.
Other infants are "nourished".
Alcoholism is nourished.
It indicates how well someone is nourished.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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