father
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The woman contacted her 72-year-old father, who came out of the house to remove Gonzalez.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Kariem's family said he was a father, passionate educator and had survived two bouts of cancer.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
My father, actor Kirk Douglas, the gladiator in the epic 1960 film, tried to be a good dad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Born to a Puerto Rican mother and Irish father, Guilfoyle was brought up working-class in San Francisco.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Father was as innocent of business know-how as his father had been before him.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The deaths of fathers, however, have attracted far less scrutiny.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
His lawyer arranged an audio call with Kashani, who is jailed in Isfahan but in another prison, to recite religious marriage vows before he died, with their fathers both giving permission.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
The American developer is renowned as one of the fathers of the modern indie game movement, creating the genre-defining puzzle-platformer Braid in 2008.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Among them are white male entitlement versus the crushing demands of Black exceptionalism; the complicated bond linking fathers to sons; and the agonizing bravery required of mothers raising boys the world is conditioned to ostracize.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
Many seem genuinely surprised that black people in the audience applaud these messages; for them, it is apparently news that black people think men should be good fathers and help to support their families.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Edgeworth’s interest in economics began with her father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, a charismatic inventor and landowner who married four times and fathered 22 surviving children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
It also delves into his personal life, including his difficult childhood and the 14 known children he has fathered with a series of women.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Some males fathered more calves than others, but the difference was not as extreme as researchers had expected.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026
Zilis said the confidentiality agreement with Musk is why she did not disclose to OpenAI's chief executive Sam Altman that twins she gave birth to in 2021 were fathered by Musk.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
Here he married, built a great manor house, fathered Antiphates and Mantios, commanders both, of whom Antiphates begot Oikleies and Oikleies the firebrand Amphiaraos.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
In 2015 he admitted to fathering a child with his lover.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
There’s little airtight data on the fathering brain; cohorts are small; some results await replication while others confound analysis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Even decades later, the legacy of whaling continues to shape whale populations, affecting not only how many whales exist today but also which males succeed in fathering calves.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 5, 2026
He was investigated at the time for embezzlement and fathering several children, but was later cleared of the charges.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2025
Back then, Cool Papa Byrd had been light on the fathering side.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
