I stopped calling my father “Daddy” because I thought it sounded childish.
Cook's Tours can be considered the daddy of all organized travel tours.
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This was two old pals knowing exactly how to approach each other, like Christmas With the Martins and the Sinatras for Tina Fey fans — if only because Tracy Jordan being Cher’s secret baby daddy feels like a season-five 30 Rock joke.—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026 Six thousand dollars was twice what his daddy made in a year.—Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026 At least Tommy gets a love interest this time around, thanks to a winsome sheriff’s daughter (daddy issues in a franchise all about mommy issues?—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2026 Harper and Yasmin have said goodbye to their spectacularly misspent youths, but their daddy issues—another of the show’s pet themes—are decidedly unresolved.—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for daddy