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the mother of your father or mother
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Recent Examples of grandmothers
Our mothers represent something much more different to what their grandmothers experienced, for example.
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Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 12 Mar. 2025
Raised by his two grandmothers, Muhammad, 45, drew from their wisdom and life lessons.
—J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2025
Here are some reflections from young women from around the world, alongside their mothers, grandmothers and mentors.
—Maryanne Murray Buechner, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Mothers, aunts, and grandmothers serve as role models, teaching younger generations about financial literacy, saving, and investment principles.
—Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
The resurgence of popular beauty looks of decades past comes at no surprise to those who grew up watching their mothers and grandmothers do their hair or paint their nails at their bathroom vanity.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2025
The disease goes back to their grandmothers on both sides of the family.
—Ashley Vega, People.com, 5 Mar. 2025
So the town was full of daughters, mothers, grandmothers who wanted to do something.
—Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
In keeping with her blueprint, patchwork oversize pieces nodded to grandmothers’ blankets.
—WWD, 3 Mar. 2025
Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 12 Mar. 2025
Raised by his two grandmothers, Muhammad, 45, drew from their wisdom and life lessons.
—J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2025
Here are some reflections from young women from around the world, alongside their mothers, grandmothers and mentors.
—Maryanne Murray Buechner, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Mothers, aunts, and grandmothers serve as role models, teaching younger generations about financial literacy, saving, and investment principles.
—Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
The resurgence of popular beauty looks of decades past comes at no surprise to those who grew up watching their mothers and grandmothers do their hair or paint their nails at their bathroom vanity.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2025
The disease goes back to their grandmothers on both sides of the family.
—Ashley Vega, People.com, 5 Mar. 2025
So the town was full of daughters, mothers, grandmothers who wanted to do something.
—Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
In keeping with her blueprint, patchwork oversize pieces nodded to grandmothers’ blankets.
—WWD, 3 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandmothers
ancestors
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Now this may be simply because a few uniquely talented craftsman build each Torpedo by hand on a small Swedish island where their ancestors have literally been building boats for more than 1000 years.—
Bill Springer,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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Their ancestors evolved in dry areas, so this element can feel unfamiliar to them.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
Newsweek,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Grandmothers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandmothers. Accessed 23 Jun. 2025.
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