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the mother of your father or mother
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Recent Examples of grandmother
And her grandfather and grandmother, and her whole family.
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Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
Another favorite is Musée Rodin, where a cherished memory with my grandmother in the garden, gazing at The Thinker, remains close to my heart.
—Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
The search for a grandmother who apparently fell into a sinkhole while looking for her cat earlier this week in a coal mine town about 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh is now a recovery mission, state officials announced.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
My mom is one of 18 siblings, and our annual tradition would be to gather as a big, crazy, Ojibwe family for a Thanksgiving meal at our grandmother Leda’s house, which served as the meeting spot for the whole motley crew.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2024
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Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
Another favorite is Musée Rodin, where a cherished memory with my grandmother in the garden, gazing at The Thinker, remains close to my heart.
—Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
The search for a grandmother who apparently fell into a sinkhole while looking for her cat earlier this week in a coal mine town about 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh is now a recovery mission, state officials announced.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
My mom is one of 18 siblings, and our annual tradition would be to gather as a big, crazy, Ojibwe family for a Thanksgiving meal at our grandmother Leda’s house, which served as the meeting spot for the whole motley crew.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandmother
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His grandfather Campbell Forsyth made four appearances in goal for Scotland in 1964 and his father Stuart Burgess, also a defender, had a distinguished career in the Scottish leagues.Asif Burhan, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Salvador-Velazquez's mom and brother joined her maternal grandfather, who as a Mexican enjoyed authorized residency in the U.S. after working as a laborer for the federal Bracero Program.Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 12 Dec. 2024
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Then, after Adams nails this rant of maternal sound and fury, signifying that the kids may be all right but the matriarchs of the world are anything but, Heller rewinds and resets the moment.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024
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Early on, an insomnia plague sinks residents into a haze of short-term memory loss; later, a single trickle of blood turns corners, crosses streets and climbs curbs to alert the family matriarch, Úrsula, of a shocking death.Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 2 Dec. 2024
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The intersection of these two facts does convince me that William's genealogical ancestress, Eliza Kewark, did have South Asian ancestry (not totally surprising even in notionally ethnically distinct groups like Armenians or Parsis who have been long resident in India).Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2013
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Instead of being a reticulated mesh the genealogy of mtDNA is a clean and inverted elegant tree leading back to a common ancestress.Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2010
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“Grandmother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandmother. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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