Thesaurus results for PARENT

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noun

as in mother

a person who brings forth and raises a child The couple recently became parents for the first time. She grew up in a single parent household.

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verb

as in to raise

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 parent

Noun

Bernardoni said each year when the drive is announced parents react quickly. —

David Sharos, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025 Meanwhile her parents are going through a relationship crisis. —

Annika Pham, Variety, 16 Feb. 2025

Verb

State of play: Vance has spent the last few years juggling trial-lawyer life at Munger, Tolles & Olson with parenting three kids under age 8. —

Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 17 Jan. 2025 From parenting her kids to coping with loss, Janelle Brown has shared her family's story on Sister Wives. Janelle and her now-ex Kody Brown welcomed children Logan, Madison, Hunter, Gabriel, Savanah and the late Garrison during their relationship. —

Jane Lacroix, People.com, 1 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for parent

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Noun

The 69-year-old hails from an ethnically mixed family – his father is Azeri and his mother is Kurdish.

— Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 6 July 2024
And if your mother doesn't feel comfortable setting her own boundary, offer to be her excuse.

— R. Eric Thomas, Washington Post, 6 July 2024