Example Sentences
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The results suggest that Shimao's social hierarchy was organized through patrilineal descent, meaning ancestry and status were traced through fathers.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
The accomplishments of the fathers or uncles of those draftees loom large.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
For them, nuclear families in general, and fathers in particular, were an obstacle to central planning schemes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Of all the conditions that make childbearing seem possible, one is the most deceptively simple: increasing the number of men who would make good fathers.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
It was a universal law in military families that mothers could not maintain the strict discipline enforced by fathers to whom discipline was a religion and a way of life.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
