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In 1915, Jukichi Harada, seeking better living conditions for his family after his young son died of diphtheria in an overcrowded boarding house, bought a wooden frame home on Lemon Street in Riverside, California.
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Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
The empathetic lead investigator on Milo’s case, Michael Peña’s Detective Alcaras, has a developmentally disabled, nonverbal 13-year-old son, Sam (Orlando Ivanovic), who would greatly benefit from attending a special-needs school his parents can’t afford.
—Judy Berman, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
One night, Bruce drives back to his childhood home, now abandoned, sits in his car, and and remembers growing up there with a distant, terrifying father and a mother who did her best to protect her young son.
—Henry Selick, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2025
After her son’s confession, Sigg fled her Westminster home.
—Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
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Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
The empathetic lead investigator on Milo’s case, Michael Peña’s Detective Alcaras, has a developmentally disabled, nonverbal 13-year-old son, Sam (Orlando Ivanovic), who would greatly benefit from attending a special-needs school his parents can’t afford.
—Judy Berman, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
One night, Bruce drives back to his childhood home, now abandoned, sits in his car, and and remembers growing up there with a distant, terrifying father and a mother who did her best to protect her young son.
—Henry Selick, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2025
After her son’s confession, Sigg fled her Westminster home.
—Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for son
Noun
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No army in history seemed ever to have been more ragged and motley and mongrel and polyglot than the Continental, rich and poor, learned and illiterate, from boys to old men, skilled and unskilled, born all over the world, speaking dozens of languages, believing in different gods and in no god.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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Gordon's wife Tana Ramsay also shared a post in honor of Jesse's big day, including more photos of the birthday boy.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Under the public trees, children ran exultantly between cars.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Villages have been burned, civilians executed, and children targeted.—
Kim Aris,
Time,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The driveway was already full of other cars arriving and various parents and kids taking photos like crazy and squealing.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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They were married in 1968, with Miguel Bezos adopting her young son, and had two more kids, Christina and Mark.—
Vinod Sreeharsha,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Son.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/son. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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