paren.
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Another scenario featured in the paper, an imagined company called "Paren't," highlights the example of a terminally ill woman leaving a deadbot to assist her eight-year-old son with the grieving process.
From Science Daily
Todas paren niñas, la criada varón.
From New York Times
Union members were asked to refrain, starting immediately, from paren- teacher conferences and student progress reports, from entering school buildings to do anything but retrieve belongings, from making a video for kindergarteners, from “any other newly added task.”
From Slate
The head of South Downs National Park, Margaret Paren, believes engineers can devise a scheme to take cars out of the park, not through it.
From BBC
Ms Paren told BBC News that the park’s board doesn’t oppose plans to improve the A27, but insists that a route which would bisect the nature reserve is unacceptable.
From BBC
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