daddies

plural of daddy
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as in dads
a male human parent I stopped calling my father "Daddy" because I thought it sounded childish

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as in ancestors
something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed Cook's Tours can be considered the daddy of all organized travel tours

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Recent Examples of daddies Some people's mommies and daddies really, really struggle with money, and that is not something to ever make fun of somebody for. Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025 The baby daddies are family to me. Jordan Greene, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • One thing the soon-to-be dads can't wait to do is pass down holiday traditions.
    Anna Halkidis, Parents, 15 Oct. 2025
  • But the worst issue – and perhaps relatable for some moms and dads in the crowd – is trying to care for her sick kid pretty much alone.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Obviously, that spoke to me, because my ancestors were slaves.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2025
  • In a personal tie, her paternal ancestors were the owners of the woollen manufacturer and merchant, William Lupton & Co, which was based in Leeds.
    Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Her Founders were fathers, and mothers, too.
    Jane Kamensky, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Ninety-five percent of the women studied were white women living in the United States, and researchers did not factor in any information provided by the fathers.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Compared to their forerunners in the tsarist era, with their party congresses held abroad, their executive committees, and their active recruitment in imperial Russia’s universities, Soviet dissidents remained a comparatively small and informal conglomeration of activists.
    Benjamin Nathans September 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • By the late 2010s, the precursors of ChatGPT, Gemini, and DALL-E were spluttering to life, making real the future that the Army had envisioned in World War II.
    Angus Fletcher, Big Think, 29 Sep. 2025
  • And the precursors for that reality may already be in motion, Metzger noted.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Daddies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daddies. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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