as in breeding
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as in producing
to become the father of
the champion racehorse went on to sire a long line of winners
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for siring
Noun
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The campaign to release the penguins and to cease all breeding programs at the aquarium has gained traction in recent months.—
Jack Guy,
CNN Money,
11 Nov. 2025 -
Collected, the winner of the 2017 Pacific Classic at Del Mar, and a leading sire has been relocated from Kentucky to Rancho San Miguel in San Luis Obispo – a move seen as a boost to California’s Thoroughbred breeding industry.—
Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Achane handled 12 first half carries, producing 64 rushing yards.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
9 Nov. 2025
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Idemitsu is constructing a large-scale facility capable of producing 1,000 metric tons of lithium sulfide annually, with a target of mass production by 2027.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The river could support wild spawning, though, and the public started to oppose nonstop stocking over allowing fish to naturally reproduce.—
Christine Peterson,
Outdoor Life,
30 Oct. 2025
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The idea was to stop the lampreys from getting upstream during their spring spawning run.—
Katie Thornton,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The novel opens as the teenage Karl Rossmann, whose parents shipped him off to America for fathering a child when he was seduced by the family’s thirty-five-year-old cook, arrives on a steamer in New York harbor and sees the Statue of Liberty holding not the emblematic torch but rather a sword.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
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In June, the singer filed for a temporary restraining order and alleged that Wagner made false claims about living at her property, being in a relationship with her and fathering her child.—
Bryan West,
USA Today,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Many political leaders saw procreation as a national duty.—
Seda Saluk,
The Conversation,
16 Oct. 2025
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Legislators have cautioned that procreation between cousins can increase the chance of birth defects.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The discovery, age five, that some people did not live in communities with all goods in common—that in fact for most, home was a locked building full of private property—begat questions still begetting questions at age thirteen.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Also like the natural world, the Tyranids are patient, slowly devouring the edges of the galaxy and reproducing in unthinkable numbers in the darkness of space.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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Women’s free labor in the home subsidized the profits of employers because workers’ families bore the cost of reproducing the future labor force.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Siring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/siring. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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