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daughter

[daw-ter] / ˈdɔ tər /
NOUN
female child; offspring
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STRONGEST


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Bullock also has a younger daughter, Laila, whom she adopted in 2015.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

When I dropped my daughter off at a three-day, two-night sports camp this summer, I was stunned to see other parents—one with a ladder—elaborately decorating the front doors of their campers’ rooms.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

After all, Donald Trump had brought his son-in-law into the White House and given him a broad portfolio which, as the husband of the president’s favorite daughter, made him very powerful.

From Salon Aug. 20, 2026

“I almost signed a contract doing TV stuff,” said Palmer, whose daughter, Bries, is a freshman at the school.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

When the family had emigrated to America, they’d claimed her as a daughter to get her into the country.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Law appeared on screen alongside her daughters several times throughout a long and varied career, including in the 1996 adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, starring Gwyneth Paltrow.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Like the Brontës, the Draydens are the eccentric daughters of a widowed curate.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Thatcher’s warbly voice hangs in the air; tales of the Leatherman and lost daughters spinning around your brain as you try to fall asleep.

From Salon Aug. 17, 2026

Now 60, I have outlived my mother, and I’m also surrounded by young people — my two daughters and my students — just as my parents were on their long-distance adventures.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

Papá’s woman said, turning her nose up at us as she reached for her two sniveling daughters and pulled them close.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall




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