as in grandfather
the mother of your father or mother
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Recent Examples of grandmother
Jones and his younger brother Lloyd lived for a time in their grandmother’s shack without electricity in Louisville, Kentucky, before returning to Chicago.
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Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
Jamie Benyon’s Two Minutes won the best short film honor for his tale about two brothers getting interrupted by their grandmother while robbing a store.
—Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024
Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin play cousins whose tour through Poland in honor of their grandmother sparks some serious family rivalry.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Nov. 2024
Tate, a mother of four, grandmother of 16 and barely 5 feet tall, asked.
—Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 3 Nov. 2024
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Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
Jamie Benyon’s Two Minutes won the best short film honor for his tale about two brothers getting interrupted by their grandmother while robbing a store.
—Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024
Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin play cousins whose tour through Poland in honor of their grandmother sparks some serious family rivalry.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Nov. 2024
Tate, a mother of four, grandmother of 16 and barely 5 feet tall, asked.
—Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 3 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandmother
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My grandfather, a rabbi who died this year, made it out of Europe before the Holocaust.Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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Harris regularly visited India as a child and spent time with her grandfather, P. V. Gopalan, a freedom fighter in India.Yash Roy, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2024
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On Rocky's birthday on Friday, Nov. 1, the Kardashian matriarch, 68, shared a sweet post on Instagram in honor the milestone.Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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An uncle and a grandmother were among those killed in the 34-day conflict, but a loquat tree the matriarch had planted next to their home endured.Sally Abou Aljoud, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 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 Nov. 2024.
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