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father

noun as in male person who begets children

noun as in priest

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Read: My father died leaving an old will predating his fourth wife.

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Her father was a commander in the Swedish Navy and died when she was 12.

Arab said he believed the attack took place as his father was transferred between the two prisons, which are in southern and northern Israel, because there were no surveillance cameras to capture it.

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The father of three adult children was curious about playing tight end—but he and his coach settled on defensive line.

“Playing this was an exploration into a cave of the self, into every experience with my father, with my mother, my experience with cinema, my scraped knees when I was 7.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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