paternal
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While maternal mortality review committees closely examine the deaths of mothers during the first year of a child's life, the researchers say paternal mortality has received little comparable attention.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Sara's siblings remain in Pakistan, where they have been living with their paternal grandfather.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
As “Lincoln in the Bardo” tells it, this paternal visit complicates matters for Willie’s spirit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
He convinced Americans that he was a safe paternal figure who sold Jell-O pudding to giggling youngsters, who instilled wholesome values in children via Saturday morning cartoons.
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2018
His paternal grandfather had made his living handcrafting rowboats for the professional watermen who plied the Thames in London, providing water-taxi and ferry services as their predecessors had done for centuries.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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