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Recent Examples of Synonyms for godfathers
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In the retiree who mentors a child.—
Jessica Coacci,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025 -
Crowe will play a swordsman who mentors Cavill's Highlander, and Bautista will play an antagonistic immortal known as The Kurgen, while Gillan will star as Connor's very mortal wife.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Sep. 2025
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Veteran head coaches Stacie Terry-Hutson (San Diego State) and Heidi VanDerveer (UC San Diego) led their teams to conference tournament championships and NCAA Tournament berths last season, while the area’s third Division I basketball program changed head coaches after a 7-23 season.—
Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Oct. 2025
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Hitting coaches Jeremy Barnes and Eric Chavez, pitching coach Jeremy Hefner, bench coach John Gibbons, third-base coach Mike Sarbaugh and catching instructor Glenn Sherlock are all parting ways with the team.—
Peter Chawaga,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
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Big Tech now engineers a perpetual state of insecurity by creating relentless technological churn, rendering our skills and safety measures obsolete, only to then sell us the tools to catch up.—
Vivian Toh,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The study, conducted over several years, uses an approach that engineers artificial proteins (referred to as ion channels) in the brain that are activated by and bound to cocaine.—
Noah Lyons,
Mercury News,
5 Sep. 2025
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Maito then pilots one of these robots, called Gaine, and teams up with other mecha to take down the real evil Nouvelle Tokyo City.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Watch On For each mission simulation, one astronaut pilots the aircraft while another charts the landing area, marking key landmarks, identifying potential hazards and helping to track the flight path.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Temple Hill’s Wyck Godfrey, who shepherds many of these adaptations alongside his producing partner Marty Bowen, told Deadline.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
26 Sep. 2025
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Punxsutawney Phil shepherds the season, ushering in an age of innocence and purity like a little lamb.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
22 Aug. 2025
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Simba walks from the parking deck to the entrance of Detroit Metropolitan Airport, and his owner guides him through security, passing out his trading cards to agents and travelers alike.—
Natalie Davies,
Freep.com,
11 Oct. 2025
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Zaremba, of Hollywood, guides anglers for peacocks from Florida City to Boynton Beach.—
Steve Waters,
Miami Herald,
10 Oct. 2025
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Medlin escorts me down the hall to the judge’s office, where Skeet is in a meeting with some local men.—
Mitch Moxley,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
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Foreign reporters can currently only enter Gaza when the Israeli military allows and escorts them.—
Filip Timotija,
The Hill,
15 Aug. 2025
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Kelsey’s group has facilitated 234 face-to-face surrenders through its hotline, which counsels women who might want to surrender their babies, but just about 62 babies have been left in boxes since Kelsey started the organization, according to Kelly, the nurse and company representative.—
Alana Semuels,
Time,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Godfathers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/godfathers. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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