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
To me, and everyone else in my family, he’s always been papa.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 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
Ella's papa used to tell her that life was a massive and intricate clockwork gear—a mechanism of cogs and springs and cams charged with a purpose, each element having to do its part.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
Nearby, Jazmin Vargas sat at a table enjoying chorizo con papas with her children, sister and niece.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
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
Families pressed around picnic tables piled high with homemade empanadas, papas fritas and steaming cups of morocho, a thick, sweet drink.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2021
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
“Because they had mamas and papas, too, Turner. You know about this stuff, right?”
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
