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Recent Examples of grandfather Advertisement My grandfather, President Jimmy Carter, spent his life on this project. Jason Carter, Time, 4 Sep. 2025 In an exclusive first teaser for the film (watch below), Cata stands just outside the family home, gazing silently at grandfather Tomeu (played by legendary Spanish actor Lluís Homar (Broken Embraces, Bad Education)). Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025 That day, my father took a bus ride to visit my grandfather, a high priest in Ijebu Igbo. Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025 When paramedics responded, June Shaver had a core temperature of about 107 degrees, her grandfather said. Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for grandfather
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Noun
  • The Chilean-American actress and singer did not reveal the age of her child or the identity of the father.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • His father taught him that a husband provides, a wife takes care of children.
    Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Her ancestor’s analytic model discouraged self-revelation by the therapist, but Freud often meets her guests’ excavations of desire and vulnerability with her own candid recollections.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • In Rea Rasmussen's case, the process took 18 months and required building genealogical connections back to ancestors born in the 1780s.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Grandfather.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandfather. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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