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Paul Revere somehow found room in his small house for the large family he had fathered
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Recent Examples of 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Vulture Staff,
Vulture,
23 Sep. 2025
Verb
There is a quiet revolution going on in America, and definitely in Atlanta, in how contemporary men are fathering.
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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
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Back in 2017, the athlete opened up to FC Barcelona about how fatherhood had changed his perspective.
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The Cubs have two first-time dads, Swanson and pitcher Javier Assad, who are celebrating Father’s Day on Sunday with a deep appreciation of how fatherhood can affect their lives while navigating the challenges of being a big-leaguer.
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These innocuous-seeming actions can kindle dry vegetation, potentially spawning a wildfire.
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New church Less than a generation later, the Protestant Reformation transformed Christianity, dividing Europe and spawning brutal violence.
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Stephen Kolek was originally going to start but will instead be placed on the paternity list.
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That’s because Sánchez is due to land on the paternity list soon, according to Boone.
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Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Campbell, California, Orbital Composites develops robotic additive manufacturing systems for producing advanced composite and high-temperature components for defense, aerospace, and energy applications.
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Longer gaps between disclosures could allow larger pools of uncertainty to accumulate beneath the surface, producing fewer but more severe repricing events when conditions finally become visible to markets.
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Cold-water releases can also help prevent rivers from heating up to lethal temperatures during critical spawning, rearing and migration periods.
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Cultural differences on child-rearing take an extreme turn when child-protection services become involved, and the divisions reflect a bigger battle between conservative and progressive values.
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War begetting still more war, like some deranged biblical prophecy.
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Men begetting men is the story, a kind of immaculate cultural reproduction.
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Son of a Preacherman, Choi's latest work, is an autobiographical look at the writer's upbringing in a family of preachers.
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Sadeq, a 45-year-old whose clerical salt-and-pepper beard and calming mien manifested his upbringing as the son of Nabatieh’s imam and a scion of the city, spoke of the need for Lebanon’s Shiites to formulate a way beyond the conflicts that have marked their history.
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Yet the history of motherhood has remained largely untold, and the narrative is not often driven by the people who do the actual mothering.
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Each statue the perfect epitome of silent, mothering, virginal womanhood that Ireland had come to worship.
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“Fathering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fathering. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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