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daughter

[daw-ter] / ˈdɔ tər /
NOUN
female child; offspring
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STRONGEST


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Alan Alperin, 70, finance professional, of Park City, Utah, who bought two tickets to an Ultimate Fighting Championship fight in Las Vegas as a gift for his daughter:

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

"I came here for a bit of company, my daughter found it on WhatsApp and I've been coming since September last year," he said.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

Leigh Ann Margolin, 50, of Goleta, Calif., whose teenage daughter bought tickets to indie-pop trio AJR at Red Rocks Amphitheatre through StubHub in June:

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

Sky News says it did not interact with his daughter, and was trying to ask Farage about a £5m gift he received from cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne before he entered Parliament in July 2024.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

“A good kind … magic that makes good things. You see, my daughter here—she’s not just a beauty, she’s talented too—spins with a touch of magic. She can spin straw into gold!”

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Zuckerberg has shown interest in classical history, even naming his daughters after Roman emperors.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2026

His daughter, Galt, wrote a novel inspired by her family, “A Taxonomy of Barnacles,” about a father with six daughters who desperately wants a son.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Her daughters have both gone on to enjoy success on screen.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Law appeared on screen alongside her daughters several times throughout a long and varied career, including in the 1996 adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, starring Gwyneth Paltrow.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

It was so perfect that even I, who had just seen twelve people eating here, could scarcely believe this was anything but an innocent old man dining with his daughters.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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