sired

past tense of sire
as in fathered
to become the father of the champion racehorse went on to sire a long line of winners

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Recent Examples of sired Bowie recently sired a calf there, making Fort Worth Zoo elephant matriarch Rasha a great-grandmother. Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Sep. 2025 The brother lions sired several cubs over their long reign at the zoo. Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025 Iraq became proof that the model would work across the region, with Hezbollah serially midwifing the proxies that Iran sired. Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025 Buddy sired nine puppies before his death in 1998. EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
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  • Raskob was an auto executive who fathered 13 children and became a wildly ambitious entrepreneur.
    Evan Hughes, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, has fathered 14 children in total.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2025
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  • In the end the meetings produced no substantive breakthrough for either side.
    Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The ad was produced by the Ontario government.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
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  • Climate Central released a new version of the database yesterday, reproduced in full with new data collected since the project was scuttled.
    Christian Orozco, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Our friend Andrew Hendrickson frosted a cake that expertly reproduced the cover of the Samoans’ Inside My Brain EP.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
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  • Even after 30 years, during which The Golden Compass became a trilogy, His Dark Materials, which begat a second trilogy, The Book of Dust—collectively selling something like 50 million copies—Pullman’s books retain an idiosyncratic spikiness.
    Lev Grossman, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Metroid and Castlevania begot the Metroidvania; hell, today, practically every game of any high difficulty gets roped in with soulslikes (referencing Dark Souls).
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2025

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“Sired.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sired. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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