Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
parent .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a parent or parents or cared for by parent surrogates
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Examples
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People tend to teach the way in which they were taught, and tend to parent how they were parented, which is probably part of the problem.
The Guardian World News Ian Tucker 2011
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On top of that he was being "parented" by my parents.
Kottu 2009
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Bod grows up in their midst, protected and parented and befriended by ghosts - and by his guardian, Silas, a being neither living nor dead.
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Children are a phase and are to be parented and you are offensive and crude to make the comparison.
Last Time I Checked, Babies Were People Too - Her Bad Mother 2010
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Some researchers who uncovered sexual preference differences between homosexually and heterosexually parented children, nonetheless declared in their research summaries that no differences were found.
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Can you imagine a mother and father who parented exactly the same all the time?
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But she used to say that you spend so much time as a psychoanalyst talking about parenting and how people are parented.
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If we all parented our children the way the horses in Cavalia were trained -- I don't mean literally, of course, but figuratively, with respect and care, patience and understanding, selflessness and joy -- what wonderful children, and ultimately adults, we would have.
Jenny Block: "Cavalia": This Show's Not Horsing Around Jenny Block 2011
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But she used to say that you spend so much time as a psychoanalyst talking about parenting and how people are parented.
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Kathy had parented Dan to follow the message of the Oracle at Delphi to 'know thyself' and to seek his own truth and follow it -- no matter what.
Judith Hammerman: Embracing Discomfort -- What it means to Be Fearless Judith Hammerman 2011
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