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Recent Examples of fatherless
That his children are fatherless because his ideas and his beliefs differed from somebody else, apparently.
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Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fatherless
motherless
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At Helen Woodward Animal Center, one polydactyly mother cat has stretched out her paws to a litter of six motherless kittens to join her own, a news release stated.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 May 2026
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Both are also for all purposes motherless boys—Suwa’s mother died and his father survives her, full of an unanswerable grief.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Fatherless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fatherless. Accessed 19 May. 2026.
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