father
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We had written the pilot, where John’s father is shooting the apple off of his head, and then when Vanessa came on shortly thereafter, she’s like, “Where’s mom?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
Hammami is 29 years old, born to an Omani father and Syrian mother, The Wall Street Journal previously reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
His father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, governed Brazil from 2019 to 2022.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
The experiment failed — none of the quartet advanced beyond Class-A — yet Fontaine maintained the sunny outlook he inherited from his father.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
Gertie’s father tried to send her away, but it didn’t work.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Among them are white male entitlement versus the crushing demands of Black exceptionalism; the complicated bond linking fathers to sons; and the agonizing bravery required of mothers raising boys the world is conditioned to ostracize.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
With both Hal and John, so much of their intergenerational trauma is tied to their fathers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
An analysis by the personal-finance site Bankrate, released last year, concluded that full-time working mothers with children under 18 earned a median of roughly $56,700 a year, compared with $76,400 for full-time working fathers.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
Metz, which changed hands between France and Germany in past conflicts, is associated with Robert Schuman, considered one of the founding fathers of the European Union, who is buried just outside the city.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
“He’s gone off his rocker!” shouted one of the fathers, aghast, and the other parents joined in the chorus of frightened shouting.
From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
He eventually fathered a child with a new wife, but that marriage collapsed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
He’d dedicated the last 25 years to construction, during which he fathered three daughters and set roots in Compton.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 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
It comes more than a decade after his marriage to Roh - the daughter of a former president - fell apart following the revelation he had fathered a child with another woman.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
“I could not have fathered an imperfect child,” Mr. Derby declared.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
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
He was investigated at the time for embezzlement and fathering several children, but was later cleared of the charges.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2025
Farming I never cared for, nor life at home, nor fathering fair children.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
