as in parenthood
the caring for a child by its parents
as the big day approaches, the expectant couple are starting to get worried about their fitness for parenting
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as in raising
to bring forth and raise to maturity through care and education
They expertly parent their second child using all the lessons learned from raising their first.
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Recent Examples of parenting
Ammcise Apply,
The Conversation,
26 June 2026
The very system itself - schooling and parenting - now operates on quelling agency.
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Mimosa Jones Tunney,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Jose Luis Gonzalez Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
The lesson stayed with Steve and became a guiding principle in his own approach to parenting.
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Yolanda Harris,
AJC.com,
19 June 2026
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Noun
Many have continued to support children, parents and relatives in Haiti while working, parenting, paying bills and contributing to the local economies in their Florida communities.
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Ammcise Apply,
The Conversation,
26 June 2026
The very system itself - schooling and parenting - now operates on quelling agency.
—
Mimosa Jones Tunney,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Verb
Just as reading books about parenting before having a child has value.
—
Jose Luis Gonzalez Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
The lesson stayed with Steve and became a guiding principle in his own approach to parenting.
—
Yolanda Harris,
AJC.com,
19 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for parenting
Recent Examples of Synonyms for parenting
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The film explores themes of parenthood that resonated with Grint, himself a father of two.
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Managers frequently make assumptions about what an employee can handle based on their personal life events, such as returning from medical leave or navigating parenthood.
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But a fresh start comes with plenty of new challenges — from rival ranchers and relentless cattle work to the unexpected trials of raising their teenage son, Carter (Finn Little).
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SpaceX went public in June, raising roughly $75 billion in the largest IPO on record.
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At work on a thesis about the history of maternity fashion, Grace Wikowski, a graduate student at the Fashion Institute of Technology, noted how Princess Diana did not shy away from the public eye during her pregnancies in the 1980s.
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She was forced to wait until the next morning, when shooting stopped, to find a motorcycle taxi driver willing to navigate around barricades and checkpoints to reach the maternity hospital.
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That was huge, because Mary has had the realization that what was supposed to be a nurturing maternal force in her life had a damaging impact on her.
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Too many nonprofits rely heavily on social platforms or short-term fundraising pushes instead of consistently nurturing donor relationships.
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Yet the history of motherhood has remained largely untold, and the narrative is not often driven by the people who do the actual mothering.
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Each statue the perfect epitome of silent, mothering, virginal womanhood that Ireland had come to worship.
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“Parenting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parenting. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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