Example Sentences

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Financial benefits for parents also help nonparent colleagues who have been picking up slack, employers say, by enabling parents to get back to work full time.

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2020

As a nonparent I’m wondering now whether I should have spoken to the parents first.

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2019

Dr. Glass agrees that cultural differences add to the greater relative parent and nonparent happiness gap — but she notes that those cultural differences are also reflected in our family policies.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2016

This was directed at any nonparent trying to exercise authority in a little kids’ life—a sibling, a caregiver.

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2014

She now operates a thriving online cardmaking venture, MommyBiz.net Ditto for nonparent Ilene Segal, founder of Baby iDesign, a four-year-old stationer in Manhattan.

From Time Magazine Archive