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Recent Examples of parental
There are very obvious parental figures for all the Lost Boys, with Dame Sylvia being the matriarch and Arthur being a father figure or a fun uncle for them.
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Leia Mendoza, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
For apps without teen account options, try using parental controls on your child’s phone or tablet to limit body image content.
—wendy Wisner, Parents, 10 Sep. 2025
The Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Arizona Women of Action, a Christian parental rights group, submitted letters to the court also opposing the law.
—Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Family Support Find and implement childcare support programs and employ benefits like flexible work options and paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents.
—Anita Nelson, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
With parental supervision features, the company states, parents get a notification if their teen starts sharing their location via the Map tool, and the parent can block their teen's access to location sharing at any time.
—Susan Tompor, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot, is rolling out extensive parental controls intended to make its technology safer for teens.
—Staff, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Even more concerning, parental monitoring appeared to exacerbate teens’ depression symptoms from online racial discrimination.
—Alvin Thomas, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
For teens under 18, who make up a significant portion of MrBeast’s audience, parental payment is nearly universal.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Leia Mendoza, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
For apps without teen account options, try using parental controls on your child’s phone or tablet to limit body image content.
—wendy Wisner, Parents, 10 Sep. 2025
The Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Arizona Women of Action, a Christian parental rights group, submitted letters to the court also opposing the law.
—Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Family Support Find and implement childcare support programs and employ benefits like flexible work options and paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents.
—Anita Nelson, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
With parental supervision features, the company states, parents get a notification if their teen starts sharing their location via the Map tool, and the parent can block their teen's access to location sharing at any time.
—Susan Tompor, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot, is rolling out extensive parental controls intended to make its technology safer for teens.
—Staff, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Even more concerning, parental monitoring appeared to exacerbate teens’ depression symptoms from online racial discrimination.
—Alvin Thomas, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
For teens under 18, who make up a significant portion of MrBeast’s audience, parental payment is nearly universal.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for parental
Adjective
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But fortunately his maternal aunt and uncle were able to take him in.—
Martine Paris,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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This includes studies on nutrition, chronic diseases, maternal health and environmental exposures such as lead or air pollution.—
Zeynep Hasgül,
The Conversation,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The portrayal appears to suggest that motherly attributes are solely within the realm of being loving, caring, comforting, protective, sheltering, and so on.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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In that situation, some new parents might have chosen to wait and see how things progressed, but Randall's motherly instincts told her action was required.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Today, with talk of a second Oscar nomination, the actor slips into a fatherly role in Hamnet playing the legendary playwright William Shakespeare, based on Maggie O'Farrell’s bestselling 2020 novel of the same name.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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His father grieved by never mentioning her name again in the house, and the fatherly approval Bono craved was in short supply.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Parental.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parental. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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