Child
Child noun - A condition or occurrence traceable to a cause.
Usage example: widespread stress is the child of the frenetic pace of the modern world
Reason
Reason noun - A statement given to explain a belief or act.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Now think that you are a parent of a grown up child, who, for no discernible reason you can think of, is suddenly convinced that you abused them as a child.
Source: Paranoia Fuel / Other - However, it is also implied that if the narrator could have just taken care of her child (and see a reason to live in said child) she could have gotten better faster.
- In Deadwood, Ellsworth to Alma Garret, as she's bearing the child of a guy who's only (lovelessly) wed for the similarly-honorable reason of dutifully marrying the widow of his dead brother.
Source: Give the Baby a Father
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Reason and Child. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/child/reason
Child & Reason. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/child/reason>.
Reason or Child. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/child/reason.
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