1
as in dad
a male human parent
his sire had been a renowned Wall Street lawyer
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as in founder
a person who establishes a whole new field of endeavor
the revered sire of the impressionist movement in art
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Recent Examples of sire
Jack Perry,
The Providence Journal,
18 Feb. 2026
Spike had sired three elephant calves at other zoos, but none survived.
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Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
4 Feb. 2026
Ivan Amato,
Quanta Magazine,
22 Dec. 2025
A lot of women just want a sire.
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Brendan Le,
PEOPLE,
21 Nov. 2025
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Verb
Morobe sired two daughters as part of a breeding program.
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Jack Perry,
The Providence Journal,
18 Feb. 2026
Spike had sired three elephant calves at other zoos, but none survived.
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Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
For instance, mouse fathers exposed to nicotine sire male pups with livers that are good at disarming not just nicotine but cocaine and other toxins as well.
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Ivan Amato,
Quanta Magazine,
22 Dec. 2025
A lot of women just want a sire.
—
Brendan Le,
PEOPLE,
21 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sire
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One of those things probably would beget the other for Young, entering his fourth NFL season.
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This Time album will beget Vanity 6, which will beget 1999.
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Both his parents supported him making the roughly 8,000-mile journey around the world, his dad in particular.
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Carr always had his dad, Chris Carr, to lean on during his journey as a basketball player.
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The headquarters just outside Colima city offer tastings, and in February, co-founder Esteban Silva and his team opened a taproom in the city called Estación Colimita.
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Having spent more than 30 years in the makeup industry, founder and makeup artist Jung Saem Mool knows great makeup starts long before foundation enters the picture.
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Prosecutors also alleged King fathered a child through an extra-marital affair and threatened the child’s mother to keep quiet.
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There is a quiet revolution going on in America, and definitely in Atlanta, in how contemporary men are fathering.
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The super-close twosome had an adorable daddy-daughter dinner date, which delighted the country singer.
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Her Instagram shows mostly Hamrick herself, with an occasional shot of her eighty-two-year-old baby daddy and their towheaded nine-year-old, whose set of lips resembles his father’s.
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Since his 2021 deal with the network, Sheridan has become a top creator at the studio with the Yellowstone universe and shows like Landman, Lioness and Tulsa King.
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More than a decade after installing the sculpture, Pinky’s creator shares his story.
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But that kind of partnership also spawned because of their circumstances both with their alliance and everything that happened afterwards.
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His passing spawned a slew of articles about the secret to extreme longevity.
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During an earnings call in May, Chief Executive Brian Chesky said AI now writes nearly 60% of new code, produced by the company’s engineers.
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For decades, oceans have acted as the planet’s main heat sink, absorbing 90% of the excess heat produced by humans burning fossil fuels.
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“Sire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sire. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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