as in mother
a person who brings forth and raises a child
The couple recently became parents for the first time. She grew up in a single parent household.
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as in to raise
to bring forth and raise to maturity through care and education
They expertly parent their second child using all the lessons learned from raising their first.
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Recent Examples of parent
Nc Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
27 June 2026
What has Jake Reiner said about his parents Rob and Michele Reiner's deaths?
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Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
27 June 2026
Allison Degrushe,
StyleCaster,
19 June 2026
When a mysterious egg hatches during a mission and the baby imprints on Ken, he's thrust into the role of parenting a newborn Gigantron.
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K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
19 June 2026
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Noun
Remember, lightning can strike out to 10 miles from the parent thunderstorm.
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Nc Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
27 June 2026
What has Jake Reiner said about his parents Rob and Michele Reiner's deaths?
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Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
27 June 2026
Verb
Amid the ongoing tension, Sudeikis has shifted his focus to co-parenting his and Wilde’s children, Otis, 12, and Daisy, 9.
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Allison Degrushe,
StyleCaster,
19 June 2026
When a mysterious egg hatches during a mission and the baby imprints on Ken, he's thrust into the role of parenting a newborn Gigantron.
—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
19 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parent
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Her mother, Gail Willard, carefully tends to this sacred space.
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Prosecutors also alleged King fathered a child through an extra-marital affair and threatened the child’s mother to keep quiet.
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Relatives identified the food vendor as Arabelia Martinez, 62, and have raised more than $100,000 to pay for therapy and replace the items damaged in the incident.
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Jake embraced his stepparent role wholeheartedly and helped raise Alex alongside Antonio and Rochelle.
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On Thursday, as the UK endured its hottest June temperature on record, CNN visited the quarry where Dylan drowned, with his mom, Beckie Ramsay.
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Sugar reconnects with Blaine, the security guard who’d never seen Casablanca, a golden-age Hollywood classic his mom named him after.
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With the fund, Amazon is investing in startups across the supply chain to identify and nurture technologies that address operational challenges in fulfillment centers, logistics and supply chain management.
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The reshaping of society by a small cadre of tech-billionaires whose actions are nurturing mass surveillance for marketing and political purposes, widespread technological unemployment, and a culture of misinformation and disinformation is clearly anti-democratic.
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The music industry mogul, who helped foster the careers of Whitney Houston and Bruce Springsteen, was hospitalized with respiratory weeks before his death.
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Obesity-fostering bacteria were found to represent a plurality in the gut microbiomes of American black bears.
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“Parent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parent. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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