father
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The couple's daughter, Athena, who appeared via video-link from the US, told the court her father was a "jealous, conniving, narcissistic villain".
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
“The next day there’s a line around the block, and my father has no idea what happened.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
In Houston last week, ICE agents stopped Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican father of three who was driving a van to work.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
“When you look at the official, I want people to remember that that’s their neighbor. It’s somebody’s father or mother out there working,” Pappas says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The story went like this: Her father had been dethroned by a mean giant.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
Of all the conditions that make childbearing seem possible, one is the most deceptively simple: increasing the number of men who would make good fathers.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
While some of the wives wouldn’t bother coming to games every Sunday, Michel said, many of the children saw the Feeney fathers as proper heroes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
“Our founding fathers drafted a charter to guarantee the rule of law and the rights of man,” says Obama in an introductory monologue.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
The Fatherhood Institute, which supports men as hands-on fathers and caregivers, also backed Doku.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
I recall our fathers were good friends because of it.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
The 35-year-old American, who currently lives in Ireland, is an online sperm donor who says he has fathered "dozens" of children all over the world, including three in Scotland.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 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
Huerta said that over the years, she’s developed a “deep relationship” with the children Chavez fathered and they are close to their siblings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
He has since fathered five children through a pair of surrogates and anonymous egg donors.
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026
His father was a wealthy white planter and engineer who recognized that the boy whom he had fathered with a free woman of color was unusually smart.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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
Shi was investigated for embezzlement and fathering several children in 2015, but was later cleared of the charges.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
As older whales became more common, they also became more successful at fathering calves than their younger competitors.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 5, 2026
The Manhattan case comprises the three hush-money deals: with Daniels, with a former Playboy model and with a onetime door attendant who told a tale of Trump fathering a child out of wedlock.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2024
Of course, marrying a poet was one thing, but fathering a son who preferred burying his face in poetry books to hunting... well, that wasn’t how Baba had envisioned it, I suppose.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
