father
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AFP saw Paliy, her mother and sister embracing Paliy's father in a circle.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
"This is a blessing. I've been waiting a long time," her father said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
When she did not return for a few hours and did not answer calls or texts from him and multiple other family members, Wormald and her father went looking for her.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
In Boston, Red Auerbach, whose Jewish father emigrated from Russia, coached the Celtics to nine NBA championships between 1957 and 1966.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
These children, this mother and father, might be ordered to the back of a truck.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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All three men have young children who will grow up with absent fathers, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Attorneys for the brothers pushed for sentences of 15 years, arguing that they had become devoted fathers whose families would suffer in their absence.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Llewellyn emphasized that fathers and other male role models have an especially meaningful role to play.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
The show’s big themes are personal, not political: identity, love, loss, fathers and sons, family freedom, connection and being “real.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
“Yes, kind of. We used to play together when our fathers would meet. We’re friends now.”
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
He eventually fathered a child with a new wife, but that marriage collapsed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
It also delves into his personal life, including his difficult childhood and the 14 known children he has fathered with a series of women.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The 35-year-old American, who currently lives in Ireland, is an online sperm donor who says he has fathered "dozens" of children all over the world, including three in Scotland.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
Some males fathered more calves than others, but the difference was not as extreme as researchers had expected.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026
Here he married, built a great manor house, fathered Antiphates and Mantios, commanders both, of whom Antiphates begot Oikleies and Oikleies the firebrand Amphiaraos.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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In 2015 he admitted to fathering a child with his lover.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
There’s little airtight data on the fathering brain; cohorts are small; some results await replication while others confound analysis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
As older whales became more common, they also became more successful at fathering calves than their younger competitors.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 5, 2026
Lynch's black-and-white debut feature Eraserhead achieved this vision far more successfully than his years at art school, with its central character descending into madness after fathering a terrifying baby.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
Of course, marrying a poet was one thing, but fathering a son who preferred burying his face in poetry books to hunting... well, that wasn’t how Baba had envisioned it, I suppose.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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