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daughter

noun

Definition of daughter

as in child

a female human born to parents Their youngest daughter graduated from college this year.

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Recent Examples of daughter Included are more than 40 complete outfits, the lion’s share of which were donated by her daughter Cornelia and are being preserved by SCAD Fash as part of its permanent archive. — Ari Stark, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026 The elder Wells has been arrested before on domestic assault, DUI and firearms charges unrelated to his daughter's disappearance, which remains unsolved. — Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026 What started out as a home for a young couple evolved into a space that could accommodate children—Levin’s three-year-old son and infant daughter. — Leonora Epstein, Architectural Digest, 14 Oct. 2026 His gig also featured appearances from Carnie Wilson (late Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson’s daughter and member of the 1990s group Wilson Phillips), Marilyn Wilson (Brian Wilson’s first wife), as well as Jan and Dean’s Dean Torrence. — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for daughter

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Health experts are also pushing the government to expand the program to vaccinate children over five.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
The driver was still in the truck, as were two children, Moses said.

— Dennis Romero, NBC news, 18 Oct. 2026

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Such laws would require third-party audits of social media algorithms to identify any harmful patterns, such as serving eating-disorder content to young girls more than to other groups.

— Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Two identical 64-year-old twins, both mid-sized, appeared alongside a zany mix of punky, straight and mid-size girls.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026

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Everyone thinks their kids’ slang is ridiculous and their parents’ politics naive.

— Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Mitt reminds me of these famous sports dads — Earl Woods, Richard Williams, Marv Marinovich — who put a golf club or tennis racket or football in their kids’ cribs.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026

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