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father

[fah-ther] / ˈfɑ ðər /




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His father was a Southern Baptist minister, and his Sunday morning sermons were broadcast on the radio in the afternoons.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

Zuckerman started his company “by accident” after his father died from leukemia.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

Cary, 45, started to use LLMs at her workplace because doing so was heavily encouraged; a year or two later, she found herself struggling to write a remembrance of her father for his memorial service.

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026

By then, her father, Urfan Sharif, and stepmother, Beinash Batool and her uncle, Faisal Malik had taken the five children and fled to Pakistan.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

His father shut his eyes, mustering his strength.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver




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