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father

[fah-ther] / ˈfɑ ðər /




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It’s an extension of an ethos championed by Dumas’s father, Jean-Louis, who ran the company for close to three decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

‘You Can See Everything’ sheds light on how Billy Evans, the father of Holmes’s children, has been managing her image while she is behind bars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

In a statement outside court, Alexandrou described his client as an "incredible father".

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

One grief-stricken father showed AFP a picture on his mobile phone of his young daughter, dressed in red and gold, who lost her life.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Thirty minutes haven’t passed yet but my father nonetheless rises abruptly.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Similarly, we both embrace holy tradition, including the Bible, the church fathers and the seven ancient ecumenical councils, and we venerate the cross, Mary, saints, icons and holy relics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

He’s obviously looked at as one of our founding fathers of of country music, and one of our patriarchal heroes of the genre.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

"Much like the father in the story, my own dad... was an accountant, but he quit his job to grow tomatoes. So it kind of touches on both of our fathers," he told BBC Newsday.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

For example, among those aged 30 to 34, the death rate for Georgia fathers was 120 deaths per 100,000 men compared with 231 deaths per 100,000 among Georgia men who were not fathers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Within the cars the dark shadows of fathers waiting for the verdict on their sons smoked out to meet him as Ben began to walk home.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

He’d dedicated the last 25 years to construction, during which he fathered three daughters and set roots in Compton.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 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

It comes more than a decade after his marriage to Roh - the daughter of a former president - fell apart following the revelation he had fathered a child with another woman.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 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

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

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

Farming I never cared for, nor life at home, nor fathering fair children.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer


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