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Example sentences for: parent

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Kristine, this is like a parent being asked to name a favorite child.
Maintaining a single cheerleader can run $5,000 a year in equipment, travel, and entry fees--tough on a parent, but far cheaper than the high-priced world of NASCAR racing, where the cars can't even talk, let alone spell out mood-boosting words letter by letter while leaping into the air.
One complication that arises from this method is that in some cases a gene is associated with both the parent and child terms or multiple child terms.
When AFDC started in the 1930s, two-thirds of children on welfare were there because of the death or incapacitation of a parent.
For a particular subclade, JEvTrace can perform a parent or child trace, identifying the subclade specific conservation within a chain of parent or child subclades of a node (Figure 3a).