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mothers

NOUN

founder, inventor

Synonyms

WEAK

administrator architect author builder creator dean elder encourager generator initiator introducer leader maker matriarch motor mover organizer originator patriarch patron prime mover promoter promulgator publisher sire sponsor supporter

NOUN

female person who has borne children

Synonyms

STRONGEST

mom parent

STRONG

ancestor creator mommy origin predecessor progenitor source

WEAK

child-bearer forebearer procreator

Antonyms

STRONG

descendant effect end result

WEAK

father

Example Sentences

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In 1971, Duncan led welfare mothers in a march into Caesars Palace to protest welfare cuts, temporarily halting gambling.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

There, among the seamstresses in training, Duncan met other welfare mothers, equally desperate, and recognized the stinginess, indifference and bureaucratic aggravations she’d been suffering in isolation were part of a larger system.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Searching for their missing migrant children, a caravan of Central American mothers traverses Mexico with tireless, even superhuman determination.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

The book established many of the themes that continue through Rowbottom’s fiction: women at odds with their bodies, mothers and daughters struggling toward one another, beauty as both aspiration and burden.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

Our mothers walk out of Bean Heaven, chatting on the stone steps of the building.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan