father
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The following day, she toured a robot exhibition in Beijing, drawing onlookers as her father often does on his Asia trips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
“Andrew was so much more than a husband, father, and friend,” the site read.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
As crown prince, Haakon worked closely with his father as he carried out his royal duties and in recent years was handed more responsibility, increasingly acting as regent while Harald was ill or absent.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
She said the inspiration was her father, who quit school to work on a farm and struggled to read.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
It was on this day in January 1837 that Father’s father had placed in this window a sign: ten boom. watches.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The themes are copycat crimes and the sins of the fathers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Rupert Grint said there was something "so special about stepping back into Ron's shoes now when we are both fathers"
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
They were arguing instead that mothers and children deserve more care and support — from fathers, from employers, from society-at-large.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
"Preserving Homer's legacy is a duty we owe to humanity. He is one of the founding fathers of literature," Bornova Mayor Omer Eski told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
They would have seen families just like their own: sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, doctors, lawyers, teachers, craftsmen, and tailors, individuals from all walks of life.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
The safari park lost its previous bull Thorn, who fathered 29 calves over the course of his life, in 2024.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 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
Musk has fathered 14 children - six with his first wife, three with Canadian singer Grimes, four with Shivon Zilis and one with conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Fritz, who also fathered a son at 19, became the only American man of his generation to reach a Grand Slam final at the 2024 U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2026
He had not known that she was pregnant and assumed that the child had been fathered by another man.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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
The idea of "self-parenting" is something rapper and songwriter Professor Green - real name Stephen Manderson - has also felt keenly since fathering his son Slimane, who is now four.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025
And Leon had not done so badly either, with his four marriages and dedicated fathering.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
