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
  • An afternoon playdate between two stay-at-home dads turns into high-stakes chaos in Entertainment Weekly's exclusive first look at Playdate.
    Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
  • This tee is an inexpensive Christmas gift for dads that doesn’t compromise on quality.
    L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Sep. 2025
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  • Demosponges are soft and squishy filter feeders and their ancestors likely shared similar characteristics.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The African roots of cumbia are expressed not only through its percussion instruments - the tambor alegre, the llamador and the tambora - but also through the voices of ancestors reflected in the sung dances of the region.
    Karla Gachet, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • To end the war and reunite the remaining hostages with their mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • In one study conducted by sociologist Katherine Conger at the University of California, Davis, fully 65% of mothers and 70% of fathers confessed to having a favorite child.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
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  • 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
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  • 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 6 Oct. 2025.

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