Thesaurus results for FATHERING

fathering 1 of 2

noun

as in fatherhood

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fathering

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verb

present participle of father

as in siring

to become the father of Paul Revere somehow found room in his small house for the large family he had fathered

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Recent Examples of fathering

Verb

There is a quiet revolution going on in America, and definitely in Atlanta, in how contemporary men are fathering. — Felicia Feaster, AJC.com, 18 June 2026 Shi was also alleged to have committed criminal offenses and violated Buddhist precepts by maintaining relationships with multiple women over a long period and fathering at least one child, according to a notice from the temple’s authority on its WeChat account at that time. — Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026 For CEOs, fathering a daughter can hold even more transformational potential—for gender equality and social responsibility—up to a point. — Corinne Post, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026 Delivering bad news In 2001, Jesse faced a scandal for having an affair that resulted in him fathering a child. — Rick Davis, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026 Crowe believes that Maximus fathering a son with a woman other than his wife tarnishes his character's legacy, as the gladiator's primary motivation in the original film is to avenge the deaths of his wife and son. — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Dec. 2025 The novel opens as the teenage Karl Rossmann, whose parents shipped him off to America for fathering a child when he was seduced by the family’s thirty-five-year-old cook, arrives on a steamer in New York harbor and sees the Statue of Liberty holding not the emblematic torch but rather a sword. — Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025 In June, the singer filed for a temporary restraining order and alleged that Wagner made false claims about living at her property, being in a relationship with her and fathering her child. — Bryan West, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025 Josh O’Connor, at his filthy best, plays a disillusioned ’70s suburban dad married to Alana Haim and vaguely fathering a pair of pathologically chatty sons as the Vietnam War and its attendant protests color the world around them. — Vulture Staff, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fathering

Noun

While fatherhood bestows a caring persona on a male candidate, for women, the candidacy is often seen through a lens of family responsibility.

— Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026
Following his 2019 essay for the New Yorker, Murakami recounts a compelling history of fatherhood, family and obligation, transforming an uncanny childhood memory into a deeply personal history.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of fatherhood

Verb

Fly’s brand of rap, defined by spare, steely 808 beats and club shoutouts, was wildly popular, spawning nearly 50 mixtape volumes and many more songs since.

— Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 25 Aug. 2026
This mystery has tantalized scientists since Charles Darwin mused on it in 1871, spawning no shortage of competing theories about the origins of Earth’s biology around four billion years ago.

— Philip Ball, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of spawning

Noun

There was a great deal of speculation about the paternity of Dannielynn after Smith’s death.

— Imani Sumbi, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 Aug. 2026
Prince Laurent has registered his paternity of Vandenkerckhove with Belgium’s civil registry, The Telegraph reported on Wednesday.

— Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of paternity

Verb

The videos, which are projected to fill a single wall, were shot with two iPhone 15s mounted together in a handheld jig, producing two images, one for each eye.

— Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
The area around my hometown was once a famous silk-producing region, and my grandparents kept silkworms in six-foot-wide bamboo trays.

— Jonathan Flint, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of producing

Noun

Some 500 horses, too, had to be moved out, some rearing and fighting as they were pulled into trailers.

— Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026
Research shows that incorporating horticulture and expanding into cash crops raises farmers’ earnings, as does the rearing of livestock.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of rearing

Verb

To remain an entertainment capital demands consistent reinvention, the showroom’s neon glow begetting the nightclub’s flashing LEDs and so on and so forth.

— Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026
War begetting still more war, like some deranged biblical prophecy.

— Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 May 2026

Definition of begetting

Noun

Linney’s Guardian tries to draw out some resentment from her new candidate, but John expresses (or feigns) sympathy for Hal, who was betrayed by his father figure Sinestro, an experience John likens to his own complicated upbringing.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2026
Entering the national stage Harp has shared little about her upbringing publicly.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of upbringing

Noun

The cultural ascendance of intensive mothering, in which mothers are deemed entirely responsible for their children’s well-being and success, has upped the ante.

— Marianne Cooper, Time, 5 Aug. 2026
To make their point perfectly clear, women are sharing photos of themselves breastfeeding in front of Old Masters paintings in museums that depict the very same mothering act.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 6 July 2026