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dads

noun

plural of dad

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a male human parent my dad did most of the cooking for dinner because he usually got home earlier than my mom

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Recent Examples of dads Thank you to all my brothers blocking and having my back and my dads! — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Oct. 2026 Science Daily said that a 1982 study show that 43% of dads have never changed a diaper. — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026 Mitt reminds me of a lot of these famous sports dads — Earl Woods, Richard Williams, Marv Marinovich — who raised their kids from birth to be this or that. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026 Xu Fu and Ma Junsheng also play surrogate dads to Seif, whose increasingly violent eruptions threaten to change the course of his life more than once. — Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026 Their dads' personal belongings, like his work shoes and cellphone, tested positive for lead. — Jennifer Mayerle, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026 The events — which started out with 10 moms and five dads and are up to 35 moms and 20 dads — are particularly special to Morgan, who was friends with some of the sons of the parents involved. — Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026 Part of it is that there have been a lot of books about Brooklyn dads. — Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2026 One Swedish study showed that flexibility within paternal leave policies, such as allowing new dads to take intermittent time off after the birth of a child, helped reduce the incidence of maternal postpartum health complications. — Megan Kuykendoll, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2026

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Those girls in the hothouses maintained by fathers and uncles certainly would not spare a single thought for Percherette.

— Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2026
Nearly every player on the team is a dad, with seemingly a few players becoming first-time fathers each of the past few seasons.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026

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Everyone has heard of the ‘crazy cat lady,’ but cat daddies have their own cultural stereotypes.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Vegas is full of bachelor parties, drag revues, Elvis impersonators, wedding chapels, showgirls, leather daddies, casino grandmas, and enough sequins to blind Liberace.

— Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 12 June 2026

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