Thesaurus results for PARENTS

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noun

plural of parent

as in mothers

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

present tense third-person singular of parent

as in raises

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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One study, though, done at a hospital in Canada, found that dads are just as good as moms at detecting fever with their hands.

Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2025
Unfortunately that is not the reality for too many moms across this country.

Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025

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