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On their misguided detour — or did they just get lost? — into diet-industrial electro-funk, the Stones are stripped of all mojo and left with nothing but wonky gramps who just discovered this thing called a synth.
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Liza Lentini,
SPIN,
20 July 2022
Emboldened, Fisher this May has had two gallant missives directed at … a couple of gramps at least a decade his senior?
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Brent Zwerneman,
San Antonio Express-News,
24 May 2022
Nonetheless, there is a quality in Sanders that is not a grandfather or a grandpa or a gramps but a Zaydie, which is the Yiddish word for grandfather.
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Talia Lavin,
The New Republic,
13 Feb. 2020
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Liza Lentini,
SPIN,
20 July 2022
Emboldened, Fisher this May has had two gallant missives directed at … a couple of gramps at least a decade his senior?
—
Brent Zwerneman,
San Antonio Express-News,
24 May 2022
Nonetheless, there is a quality in Sanders that is not a grandfather or a grandpa or a gramps but a Zaydie, which is the Yiddish word for grandfather.
—
Talia Lavin,
The New Republic,
13 Feb. 2020
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“Gramps.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gramps. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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