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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 Additionally, Morgan Lindholm will return to expand on her role as Maddie, the bartender at the local watering hole, Bullet ’N Barrel, and Cal’s (Logan Marshall-Green) estranged daughter. — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2026 Kim Kardashian and mom Kris Jenner have prevailed again in their defamation war against Ray J, with a Los Angeles judge siding with the mother-daughter duo and declining to dismiss their claims. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2026 Jones once imagined that a future daughter might follow her into elite sports. — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026 The saga continued this week over a nude photo of their young daughter that was part of hundreds of pages of files Miller and his legal team shared to social media as a record of their defense against Moreno’s claims. — Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 12 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for daughter

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The dogs played such a significant role in the King and Camilla’s lives that the latter had a sketch of her dogs embroidered on her coronation dress along with the names of her children and grandchildren.

— Audrey Schmidt, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026
One Houthi attack on Thursday injured 11 civilians, including a 4-year-old child, according to the Saudi military.

— Fatma Khaled, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2026

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And if that happened to me as a person who had worked in the industry for 15 years at that point, what’s happening to other girls who want to learn how to play bass, who live in Idaho, who don’t even have access to instruments?

— Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 10 Aug. 2026
Their daughter, Josephine, attended a Catholic girls’ school in the Maryland suburbs, and then, like her father, went to Harvard; their son, John, attended a boarding school in Connecticut, and then the University of Miami.

— Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

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