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as in dads
a male human parent
I stopped calling my father "Daddy" because I thought it sounded childish
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as in ancestors
something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed
Cook's Tours can be considered the daddy of all organized travel tours
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Recent Examples of daddies
Vegas is full of bachelor parties, drag revues, Elvis impersonators, wedding chapels, showgirls, leather daddies, casino grandmas, and enough sequins to blind Liberace.
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Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
12 June 2026
One of the world’s most famous baby daddies is getting a Netflix docuseries to chronicle his hectic life.
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Michael Schneider,
Variety,
13 May 2026
The options are vast, ranging from Rita Ora vamping on one station and drunk gay daddies being spotlighted on another.
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Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
30 Dec. 2025
Some people's mommies and daddies really, really struggle with money, and that is not something to ever make fun of somebody for.
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Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Aug. 2025
The baby daddies are family to me.
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Jordan Greene,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
12 June 2026
One of the world’s most famous baby daddies is getting a Netflix docuseries to chronicle his hectic life.
—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
13 May 2026
The options are vast, ranging from Rita Ora vamping on one station and drunk gay daddies being spotlighted on another.
—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
30 Dec. 2025
Some people's mommies and daddies really, really struggle with money, and that is not something to ever make fun of somebody for.
—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Aug. 2025
The baby daddies are family to me.
—
Jordan Greene,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for daddies
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Depressed dads are more prone to expressing aggravation, annoyance or even rage, Daniel Singley, a psychologist who founded a therapy center for men, said to the Times.
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The Chicago Cubs have two first-time dads, Dansby Swanson and Javier Assad, who are celebrating Father’s Day on Sunday with a deep appreciation of how fatherhood can affect their lives.
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Kean comes from a long line of public servants, stretching 250 years to the country’s founding when one of his ancestors became New Jersey’s first leader since independence.
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The driving force for the tour is the idea that Black Americans and Muslims must unapologetically tell their own story, something their ancestors couldn’t do.
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Russert and Sanders Townsend have bonded over losing their fathers.
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That would have been unlikely just a few years ago — when laws in this Muslim-majority nation forbade women freedom of travel without permission from husbands or fathers.
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Even the Hammurabi Code, a set of laws created by the sixth Babylonian king in approximately 1760 bce, established forerunners of today’s interest rate and minimum wage laws.
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The Norwegian ended his season before the Olympics to further recover from a shoulder injury, but attended the finals as one of the forerunners, who test a course shortly before a race starts.
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Essentially, this transition marks the point where our cells are set up with the precursors required for organ formation, one of the most critical events in human development.
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Earth-impacting shrapnel from those primordial upheavals may have helped seed our planet with the precursors for life, delivering water and organic compounds from the dark, icy depths of the outer solar system.
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“Daddies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daddies. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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