papa
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‘You’ve got to take care of mama bear and papa bear first.’
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 16, 2025
When Gustav swaggers back into the daughters’ lives to play the cheery grandfather and beloved papa, both are skeptical.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
“He was the most amazing husband, father, papa and actor. He loved performing for the ‘Days’ audience and sharing the stage with the greatest cast, crew, and production team in the business.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2024
She said Fayed "behaved like a father figure", told her to call him "papa", and "often spoke about his family and children, as if to make me feel safe around him."
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2024
Our mama and papa took us on a vacation to Vermont the day after Baby Emma left so that we wouldn’t miss her too much.
From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince
As a result, this specific babbling bent makes "dadas," "babas" and "papas" – along with "apas" and "abas" – very popular things for little Carlos or Keisha to say while hanging out in the crib.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2022
And “Rutherford Falls” co-creator Sierra Teller Ornelas tweeted, “This may seem like a small papas thing, but all we hear is ‘you folks have no stars to build projects around’.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2022
He hits, in his way, the same notes as Ted Lasso: a man unabashed to be emotional, loving, kind, the proudest and most supportive of papas.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2020
Should you eat the papas bravas the same night as the chicharrones locos, you may wish they did not both depend on the pineapple hot sauce and the cashew cream.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2015
“Our mamas and papas aren’t b-bad, just unlucky,” the boy went on in his relentless way, “and M-Matt isn’t bad either!”
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
