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Not only is Big Ant afraid he doesn’t measure up to the boy’s fantasies; he’s scared that his son will copy his mistakes and get snatched by the system.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Trump's son Eric, who oversees the family's golf interests, is a more regular visitor and is familiar to villagers.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
He says his son should attack Garcia using suffocating, bobbing aggression - the kind that Nigel used to blow out Iran Barkley in 1990.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Father and son are helped by a trio of friendly spirits, who enter Lincoln’s body and encourage him to accept Willie’s demise, so that Willie can move on as well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Kane’s influential family supported their adventurous son financially as he put together a second expedition to the Arctic.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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“It’s not fun,” one of her sons tells her, “when you don’t care about butterflies.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
"We want the men accused of murdering our sons to see, in person, the human consequences of what happened," Martin and Debra Robinson said in a statement, according to Australia's national broadcaster, the ABC.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
One of my sons is planning to build a small house on the same large lot as my house.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Southern explained that the brothers "were that estranged that Noel's youngest sons and Liam's sons hadn't met".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
I have heard that the pharaoh has even brought one of his sons with him.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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