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sperm donor

American  
[spurm doh-ner] / ˈspɜrm ˌdoʊ nər /

noun

  • sperm donors
    plural
  1. a person who donates their sperm to enable others to become pregnant.


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After 30 years of imagining who his father might be, Arthur finally made contact with his sperm donor on Christmas Day in 2017.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

Rachel says she spent years questioning whether she had been given the wrong sperm donor during her treatment at Dogus IVF Centre.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Now, after 13 years of uncertainty, Rachel and Jonah's DNA tests indicate that he is her biological son, but that Ditto was not the sperm donor.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Fertility treatment, or IVF, using a sperm donor is possible for some women on the NHS but there are limited rounds, lengthy waiting lists and a shortage of donors.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

He doesn’t truly fit the role of a father in my perspective, so I refer to him as my sperm donor.

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