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father

[fah-ther] / ˈfɑ ðər /




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When their father dies and leaves behind a sketch that might be the work of renowned Vietnamese painter K.P.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Marcus’ son, notes Mr. Potter, was nothing like his enlightened father.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

He was a passionate, fiery character and a wonderful father.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

Like his father, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mr. Hoffman is proving to be an invaluable performer with a predilection for piquant-to-risky material.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

He was about to go when his father murmured his name.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

The results suggest that Shimao's social hierarchy was organized through patrilineal descent, meaning ancestry and status were traced through fathers.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

They’ll feel his essence because their fathers are just like him.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

For them, nuclear families in general, and fathers in particular, were an obstacle to central planning schemes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

Of all the conditions that make childbearing seem possible, one is the most deceptively simple: increasing the number of men who would make good fathers.

From Slate Jul. 6, 2026

“Uncles always seem like these guys who get to have all the cool stuff fathers never get to have.”

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

The safari park lost its previous bull Thorn, who fathered 29 calves over the course of his life, in 2024.

From BBC Jun. 13, 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

Huerta said that over the years, she’s developed a “deep relationship” with the children Chavez fathered and they are close to their siblings.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 18, 2026

He has since fathered five children through a pair of surrogates and anonymous egg donors.

From Slate Feb. 23, 2026

Renly was too young to have fathered a boy of that age, Stannis too cold and proud in his honor.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

Even decades later, the legacy of whaling continues to shape whale populations, affecting not only how many whales exist today but also which males succeed in fathering calves.

From Science Daily Mar. 5, 2026

The idea of "self-parenting" is something rapper and songwriter Professor Green - real name Stephen Manderson - has also felt keenly since fathering his son Slimane, who is now four.

From BBC Dec. 28, 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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