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father

noun as in male person who begets children

noun as in priest

verb as in sire

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An accomplished journalist for a New Yorker-style publication with a specialty in culture and race, he’s a lapsed Muslim, unattached and mourning his late father but soldiering on.

Snow Patrol star Gary Lightbody has said he felt broken by the death of his father Jack and that writing about it was cathartic.

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New and expectant fathers should have the same protections from redundancy as mothers, a Labour MP has said.

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He worked for a while as a tinsmith in his father's foundry before moving to Edinburgh to study and then pursue an acting career.

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He is the father of Michael Boulos, who is married to Trump's daughter Tiffany, and has been serving as Trump's senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs since December.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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