Thesaurus results for FATHERING

fathering 1 of 2

noun

as in fatherhood

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fathering

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verb

present participle of father

as in siring

to become the father of Paul Revere somehow found room in his small house for the large family he had fathered

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Recent Examples of fathering

Verb

There is a quiet revolution going on in America, and definitely in Atlanta, in how contemporary men are fathering. — Felicia Feaster, AJC.com, 18 June 2026 Shi was also alleged to have committed criminal offenses and violated Buddhist precepts by maintaining relationships with multiple women over a long period and fathering at least one child, according to a notice from the temple’s authority on its WeChat account at that time. — Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026 For CEOs, fathering a daughter can hold even more transformational potential—for gender equality and social responsibility—up to a point. — Corinne Post, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026 Delivering bad news In 2001, Jesse faced a scandal for having an affair that resulted in him fathering a child. — Rick Davis, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026 Crowe believes that Maximus fathering a son with a woman other than his wife tarnishes his character's legacy, as the gladiator's primary motivation in the original film is to avenge the deaths of his wife and son. — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Dec. 2025 The novel opens as the teenage Karl Rossmann, whose parents shipped him off to America for fathering a child when he was seduced by the family’s thirty-five-year-old cook, arrives on a steamer in New York harbor and sees the Statue of Liberty holding not the emblematic torch but rather a sword. — Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025 In June, the singer filed for a temporary restraining order and alleged that Wagner made false claims about living at her property, being in a relationship with her and fathering her child. — Bryan West, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025 Josh O’Connor, at his filthy best, plays a disillusioned ’70s suburban dad married to Alana Haim and vaguely fathering a pair of pathologically chatty sons as the Vietnam War and its attendant protests color the world around them. — Vulture Staff, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fathering

Noun

The video saves its most personal reveal for the end, as Tangana steps into fatherhood.

— Katie Bain, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2026
An unexpected shot at fatherhood is both the last thing Peter needs and, in the movie’s unsurprising yet wholly enjoyable formulation, the best thing that’s ever happened to him.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of fatherhood

Verb

The Taurids are known for spawning brilliant fireball meteors, which can flare brighter than Venus as pebble-sized pieces of debris enter and burn up in the atmosphere.

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2026
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created one of the most beloved fictional detectives of all time in Sherlock Holmes, spawning countless novels, films, TV series, and so forth featuring the sleuth.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of spawning

Noun

Owens, a California native living in Arizona, filed a paternity lawsuit against Echard in 2023 seeking child support, according to prosecutors.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
By the time Lewis is 19 months old, Young formally adopts her, forever hiding her pregnancy and Gable paternity from the world.

— Giovana Gelhoren, InStyle, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of paternity

Verb

Federal research funding supports jobs and businesses while producing discoveries and training the workforce on which private industry depends.

— Carole LaBonne, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026
Founded, in 1974, by the animator Tatsuo Shimamura, Shirogumi originally specialized in producing effects for television commercials, in addition to making films for special events and expositions.

— Matt Alt, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of producing

Noun

Freed from the domestic function of birthing and raising babies, the argument goes, women have chosen to prioritize other goals instead of child rearing.

— Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Foreign Affairs, 10 Nov. 2026
Turner was hardly alone among artists in devoting the same intensity of care to the enrichment of a painting that others give to the rearing of a child.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of rearing

Verb

The stock market crashed in 1929, begetting federal securities regulations including the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission — in 1934.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
Nelson took 12 years to get the project made, and that labor-of-love aspect shows in the soulfulness and meticulous care the writer-director brings to this unsettling story of violence begetting violence, based on actual events.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of begetting

Noun

His own image is both ruggedly masculine — the work boots and Carhartt pants, the athlete’s upbringing in Idaho, the brawny materials, the jaw still square even as the stubble has whitened — and gentle, brainy, soft-spoken.

— Zachary Woolfe, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2026
Combining pozole, corn, and langoustine, Lopez connected his upbringing in Mexico with a culinary journey that has been shaped by Scandinavian ingredients and Japanese techniques.

— Sari Kamin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of upbringing

Noun

The cultural ascendance of intensive mothering, in which mothers are deemed entirely responsible for their children’s well-being and success, has upped the ante.

— Marianne Cooper, Time, 5 Aug. 2026
To make their point perfectly clear, women are sharing photos of themselves breastfeeding in front of Old Masters paintings in museums that depict the very same mothering act.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 6 July 2026