How to Use biological parent in a Sentence

biological parent

noun
  • Her biological parents were able to keep her, for a time, but things didn’t change.
    — Latif Love june 26, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2026
  • Here's a look back at the case and what may happen next now that the biological parents have been found.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Some biological parents no longer knew where their children were.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Hastings said she was removed from the house for a few weeks while her biological parents were placed in classes.
    — Latif Love june 26, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2026
  • Then again, maybe the Atlantic, near Vigo, where her biological parents met and fell in love.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 June 2026
  • Lee and Smith are believed to be the boy's biological parents, Cook told reporters.
    — Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
  • What happens now that the biological parents have been identified?
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Her biological parents were from Gilead.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The biological parents of a child at the center of a fertility embryo mix-up have been located.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
  • When the relationship was known, the suspect was most often a biological parent.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Score and Mills went public with their story in an effort to locate their daughter's biological parents.
    — Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026
  • How much do children resemble their biological parents, even if they’ve been adopted away at birth and raised by different people?
    — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Their eldest, his stepdaughter, who soon turns 14, no longer has either of her biological parents.
    — Miami Herald, 10 June 2026
  • Uthmeier has also argued that the government has a duty to protect children who didn’t have a say in not being raised by both biological parents.
    — Ann Marie Luft, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 May 2026
  • To ascertain a player’s biological age, the height and date of birth of their biological parents is collected and their height and weight tracked every three months or so.
    — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • These people could include biological parents, stepparents, adoptive parents or other adults serving in those roles.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 20 June 2026
  • Tiffany Score and Steven Mills came to an agreement with the biological parents of their baby, Shea, earlier this month.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 17 June 2026
  • Of the first-time learners in each sibling group, roughly 75 percent learned from adults who were not their biological parent and about 25 percent learned from their parents.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2025
  • After a DNA test confirmed that his biological parents weren’t the people who had raised him, the young man struggled with depression.
    — Sam Gillette, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The lawsuit also claims that the couple has asked the clinic to no avail to help reunite the daughter Score gave birth to with her biological parents and to find out what happened to their own frozen embryos.
    — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Lester's adoptive parents had always known their daughter shared biological parents with two other children who another family had adopted.
    — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 27 June 2026
  • The attorney general has argued that the government has a duty to protect children who didn’t have a say in not being raised by both biological parents, Jay said.
    — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 8 May 2026
  • His biological parents had prior abuse convictions.
    — Shannon Tyler march 27, Idaho Statesman, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The child's biological parents are choosing to remain anonymous and are only identified as Patient 004 in court records.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 17 June 2026
  • Detectives were able to rule out Michelle Rust's biological parents as suspects during the investigation.
    — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Over the last 11 years, her organization alone has a database of 600 biological parents and children who are looking for their families.
    — Rafael Romo, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Attorneys have said that testing to determine who the baby's biological parents are is underway, the Network reported.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Jack Scarola, an attorney for the couple, said Score and Mills appreciate how news of their mix-up helped connect them with Shea's biological parents.
    — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2026
  • The couple want to identify their baby’s biological parents and want to know if one of their embryos was mistakenly implanted into another woman, who could be raising their biological child.
    — Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2026
  • However, details about the stepbrother being investigated were revealed in a court filing as part of a custody dispute between the 16-year-old boy’s biological parents.
    — Alia Shoaib, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025

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