Word of the Day: defer

The word defer has appeared in 109 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on March 3 in “Learning to Become a Better Grandfather” by Paula Span:

Dr. Hirsh-Pasek urged parents to share information about their children’s current obsessions, so grandfathers can bone up on dinosaur facts or watch a few episodes of “Bluey” and talk with their grandkids about them. For online visits, “find books they can read together and things they can do together,” she said.

… Dr. Hirsh-Pasek advised grandfathers in heterosexual relationships to spend some time with their grandchildren on their own, apart from their spouses. Otherwise, they might defer to their wives, especially if “she is the child-raiser, the more experienced one,” she said.

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