as in grandfather
the mother of your father or mother
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Recent Examples of grandmother
Barbara Brigham, a grandmother whose doctors found her pancreatic cancer in September 2020, is one of the lucky ones experiencing a years-long response to the vaccine.
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Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 9 Mar. 2025
Because of this, her grandmother didn’t always report her missing when the teen didn’t come home right away, police said.
—Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2025
About three years ago, her grandmother died and the director came home for the funeral.
—Esther Zuckerman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025
Other than Hao and Liang’s ailing grandmother (Bella Chen), the island seems all but deserted: a reserve of ghosts, perhaps, their timelines crossed and blurred.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Feb. 2025
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Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 9 Mar. 2025
Because of this, her grandmother didn’t always report her missing when the teen didn’t come home right away, police said.
—Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2025
About three years ago, her grandmother died and the director came home for the funeral.
—Esther Zuckerman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025
Other than Hao and Liang’s ailing grandmother (Bella Chen), the island seems all but deserted: a reserve of ghosts, perhaps, their timelines crossed and blurred.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandmother
Noun
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Journalism is part of my heritage: My great great grandfather was a Civil War correspondent for the Chicago Tribune.—
Laura Begley Bloom,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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Brown, whose father and grandfather were both combat veterans, has held multiple combat commands and logged 130 combat hours as a fighter pilot.—
Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards,
Orlando Sentinel,
28 Feb. 2025
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The matriarch of the Dutton family, who writes letters to Spencer like diary entries, is the majestic Helen Mirren as Cara Dutton with a gruff Harrison Ford impeccably playing her loving husband, Jacob Dutton.—
Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
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The true-life sports biopic unleashes Leo as Alice, the loud, over-the-top matriarch of a large Boston family and manager mom to Micky Ward, a championship boxing contender trained by his drug-addict pugilist half-brother Dicky.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
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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 13 Mar. 2025.
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