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Comments that people used to make anonymously from behind a screen now land directly on the feelings of siblings, cousins and in-laws.
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Dan Rene, Boston Herald, 25 Nov. 2025
The Queens native paired up with Holly Hunter as lovable would-be in-laws in The Big Sick (2017), played a mob lawyer in Martin Scorsese's The Irishman (2019), and starred alongside Hugh Jackman in HBO’s acclaimed Bad Education (2019).
—Danny Horn, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Nov. 2025
Those are his in-laws who turn on the game and then lovingly bicker.
—Cathie Beck, Denver Post, 23 Nov. 2025
This is especially true when the in-laws are coming to stay with you.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 17 Nov. 2025
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Dan Rene, Boston Herald, 25 Nov. 2025
The Queens native paired up with Holly Hunter as lovable would-be in-laws in The Big Sick (2017), played a mob lawyer in Martin Scorsese's The Irishman (2019), and starred alongside Hugh Jackman in HBO’s acclaimed Bad Education (2019).
—Danny Horn, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Nov. 2025
Those are his in-laws who turn on the game and then lovingly bicker.
—Cathie Beck, Denver Post, 23 Nov. 2025
This is especially true when the in-laws are coming to stay with you.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 17 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for in-law
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“In-law.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in-law. Accessed 27 Nov. 2025.
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