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son

[suhn] / sʌn /


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Not only is Big Ant afraid he doesn’t measure up to the boy’s fantasies; he’s scared that his son will copy his mistakes and get snatched by the system.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

Trump's son Eric, who oversees the family's golf interests, is a more regular visitor and is familiar to villagers.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

He says his son should attack Garcia using suffocating, bobbing aggression - the kind that Nigel used to blow out Iran Barkley in 1990.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

Father and son are helped by a trio of friendly spirits, who enter Lincoln’s body and encourage him to accept Willie’s demise, so that Willie can move on as well.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

Kane’s influential family supported their adventurous son financially as he put together a second expedition to the Arctic.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

“It’s not fun,” one of her sons tells her, “when you don’t care about butterflies.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

"We want the men accused of murdering our sons to see, in person, the human consequences of what happened," Martin and Debra Robinson said in a statement, according to Australia's national broadcaster, the ABC.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

One of my sons is planning to build a small house on the same large lot as my house.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

Southern explained that the brothers "were that estranged that Noel's youngest sons and Liam's sons hadn't met".

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

I have heard that the pharaoh has even brought one of his sons with him.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman




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