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Recent Examples of son De la Rocha’s son Zack, lead singer of Rage Against the Machine, likens his father’s painting style to that of jazz legend John Coltrane: Both artists build from a simple concept, delve into a frenzy and land back on something familiar. Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024 Check out what his son, Don Jr., had to say in Arizona. ABC News, 29 Dec. 2024 Another son, James L. Dolan, served as CEO of Cablevision from 1995 until 2016, when the company was sold. Andrea Riquier, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2024 Born in Los Angeles on Oct. 11, 1941, Shyer was the son of production executive and director Melville Shyer, who co-founded the Director's Guild of America, and Lois Delaney. Ashley Hume, Fox News, 29 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for son 
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Noun
  • In the early morning hours of Dec. 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey called 911 to report her 6-year-old daughter JonBenét missing, and found a rambling ransom note left inside their Boulder, Colorado, home.
    Dena Goldstein, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Here's everything to know about Barry Manilow and Garry Kief's daughter, Kirsten Kief.
    Emy LaCroix, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands Princess Catharina-Amalia is the heir to the Dutch throne and is the eldest of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima’s three daughters.
    Rebecca Cope, Vogue, 25 Dec. 2024
  • The five-year legal battle between the heirs of American scene painter Thomas Hart Benton and a Kansas City bank accused of mismanaging his estate, selling his pieces for below their market value, and misplacing more than 100 artworks, has ended in a win for the bank.
    Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 23 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Joyce's son Hanford McCloud says there's not a lot of fish left to teach Nisqually children about their own culture.
    Anna King, NPR, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Meanwhile Alabama will offer tax credits to businesses that help employees with child care costs.
    David A. Lieb, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The TikTok legislation imposes hefty fines on companies found to be in violation, and Trump or his eventual successor could change their minds on enforcement.
    Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Assad had always seen his brother Rifaat as his logical successor.
    Sefa Secen / Made by History, TIME, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • In this study, a team used machine-learning methods to analyze recordings of 469 calls or ‘rumbles’ made by wild African elephant female–offspring groups in the Amboseli National Park and Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves in Kenya.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Another was revealing the math that would show nature’s multiple fundamental forces to be just different offspring of one unified force.
    Tom Siegfried, JSTOR Daily, 19 Dec. 2024

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“Son.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/son. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.

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