as in parenthood
the caring for a child by its parents
as the big day approaches, the expectant couple are starting to get worried about their fitness for parenting
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as in raising
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 parenting
Mimosa Jones Tunney,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
But mostly they were exhausted from balancing their teaching careers with single parenting.
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Kayla Levy,
Curbed,
25 June 2026
Sarah Levy,
The Atlantic,
17 June 2026
These days, Wilde and Sudeikis are purely focused on co-parenting their two kids — Otis, 12, and Daisy, 9.
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Rachel McRady,
PEOPLE,
17 June 2026
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Noun
The very system itself - schooling and parenting - now operates on quelling agency.
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Mimosa Jones Tunney,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
But mostly they were exhausted from balancing their teaching careers with single parenting.
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Kayla Levy,
Curbed,
25 June 2026
Verb
The desire for a reprieve from parenting—and the use of substances to get it—is hardly new.
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Sarah Levy,
The Atlantic,
17 June 2026
These days, Wilde and Sudeikis are purely focused on co-parenting their two kids — Otis, 12, and Daisy, 9.
—
Rachel McRady,
PEOPLE,
17 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parenting
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The film explores themes of parenthood that resonated with Grint, himself a father of two.
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Managers frequently make assumptions about what an employee can handle based on their personal life events, such as returning from medical leave or navigating parenthood.
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The way the loss came about should be raising alarm bells inside the US camp.
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Forming partnerships with like-minded organizations is critical to raising brand awareness, accessing new markets and multiplying impact.
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She was forced to wait until the next morning, when shooting stopped, to find a motorcycle taxi driver willing to navigate around barricades and checkpoints to reach the maternity hospital.
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Shami, overwhelmed with grief, was taken to the maternity ward to be monitored, with doctors worried about her and the baby.
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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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How to transform these artworks into an exhibition nurturing a feminist and humane society?
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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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“Parenting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parenting. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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