as in father
a male human parent
my dad did most of the cooking for dinner because he usually got home earlier than my mom
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Recent Examples of dad
Kelly Clarkson got candid about how her kids are doing five months after the death of their dad, Brandon Blackstock.
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Lara Walsh, InStyle, 12 Jan. 2026
Van Dyke will operate the restaurant alongside his dad, veteran restaurateur Jeff Van Dyke, and Darnaye Black.
—Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 12 Jan. 2026
Booker became a Broncos fan because of his dad.
—Romi Bean, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026
On Friday, in Minneapolis, Musselman was back in the building that meant so much to him and his dad.
—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
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Lara Walsh, InStyle, 12 Jan. 2026
Van Dyke will operate the restaurant alongside his dad, veteran restaurateur Jeff Van Dyke, and Darnaye Black.
—Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 12 Jan. 2026
Booker became a Broncos fan because of his dad.
—Romi Bean, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026
On Friday, in Minneapolis, Musselman was back in the building that meant so much to him and his dad.
—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dad
Noun
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There’s an absent father and a clueless, neglectful mother but the five Gilbert children — Lydia, Hugo, Annabel, Jeremy and Rosalind — are essentially raising themselves in an English country house of secret passages and worrying infestations.—
Chris Hewitt,
Boston Herald,
22 Jan. 2026
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Then in the afternoon, 5-year-old Liam Ramos was taken with his father while in their driveway after just arriving home from his preschool classroom.—
Reg Chapman,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Colette is so lucky to have the best daddy in the world.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
18 Jan. 2026
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Worse, Spike is forced to join Crystal’s gang and take the name Jimmy, effectively joining a nihilistic death cult that, for a time, brings to mind the daddy of all nihilistic death cults, the one seen in 1970’s Beneath the Planet of the Apes.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Dad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dad. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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