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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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Kin is about two childhood friends—both motherless daughters—on the road to womanhood and partly set in Georgia’s capital, in particular at Jones’s alma mater, Spelman College.—
Riza Cruz,
Vogue,
24 Feb. 2026
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Both are motherless but for different reasons.—
Tembe Denton-Hurst,
Vulture,
24 Feb. 2026
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“Fatherless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fatherless. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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