The figurative use of cradle is used to mean "the place or region in which anything is nurtured or sheltered in its earlier stage" – such that the term cradle of civilization means the place where civilization was first nurtured and sheltered.

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The figurative use of cradle is
used to mean "the place or region in which anything is nurtured or
sheltered in its earlier stage" – such that the term cradle of civilization means the place where
civilization was first nurtured and sheltered is true.

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true

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