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the mother of your father or mother
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Recent Examples of grandmothers
Though the marketing is definitely aimed at women, Pash said the clientele has included men and women — from regular users to grandmothers hoping for some relief from joint pain.
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Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 15 Apr. 2026
The film turns on two grandmothers with opposing visions – Nancy, drawn to what lies outside the forest, and Huanginkamu, committed to defending her ancestral home – as López Rubio reflects on the implications of her own filmmaking presence.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Apr. 2026
There’s something for everyone on this list—not just mothers, but mothers-in-law, grandmothers, and anyone who has had a hand (and heart) in bringing you up.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 14 Apr. 2026
My grandmothers have always been a source of inspiration, especially for beauty tips and tricks that transcend time.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2026
Nine grandmothers, all in their nineties, staring down death without justice as a far-right Japanese government denies their history.
—Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026
Her grandmothers were teachers.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
The restaurant website notes that Schneider was inspired by his grandmothers' techniques to recreate their cooking with elements of his own creativity.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
What would our grandmothers have said?
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 15 Apr. 2026
The film turns on two grandmothers with opposing visions – Nancy, drawn to what lies outside the forest, and Huanginkamu, committed to defending her ancestral home – as López Rubio reflects on the implications of her own filmmaking presence.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Apr. 2026
There’s something for everyone on this list—not just mothers, but mothers-in-law, grandmothers, and anyone who has had a hand (and heart) in bringing you up.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 14 Apr. 2026
My grandmothers have always been a source of inspiration, especially for beauty tips and tricks that transcend time.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2026
Nine grandmothers, all in their nineties, staring down death without justice as a far-right Japanese government denies their history.
—Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026
Her grandmothers were teachers.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
The restaurant website notes that Schneider was inspired by his grandmothers' techniques to recreate their cooking with elements of his own creativity.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
What would our grandmothers have said?
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandmothers
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Her grandfathers were military.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Apr. 2026
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College-age amateurs competing alongside former champions old enough to be their grandfathers is a longstanding Masters tradition.—
Jack Leo,
AJC.com,
4 Apr. 2026
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Inouye said she was inspired to do this by none other than one of the matriarchs of the movement, Alice Waters of Berkeley’s Chez Panisse.—
Sean Timberlake,
Sacbee.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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Even outside of traditional television, the reality TV model has made millionaires of even more toxic matriarchs such as Ruby Framke, who amassed over 2 million YouTube subscribers by pimping out her children for clicks while criminally abusing them in secret.—
Tiana Lowe Doescher,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Mar. 2026
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Moritz Grossmann was one of the forefathers of German watchmaking in Glashütte.—
Victoria Gomelsky,
Robb Report,
30 Mar. 2026
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The clubs, civic organizations and community events that once brought our forefathers together are largely fading away.—
Judith Martin,
Dallas Morning News,
10 Mar. 2026
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The Four Freedoms awards are presented in the New Church in Middelburg, in the province of Zeeland, where Roosevelt's ancestors hail from.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Researchers studying a 250-million-year-old fossil have found the first ever proof that mammal ancestors laid eggs, with the discovery also shedding light on a remarkable survival story.—
Jack Guy,
CNN Money,
15 Apr. 2026
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Banerjee, who was born in 1963, offered an effusive epilogue to the modernist exhibit, exploring dimensions, textures and scale that many of her artistic forebears could only dream of.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
19 Apr. 2026
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But while their forebears deconstructed rock conventions, HYPER GAL’s primary influence is the glistening textures of pop.—
Jude Noel,
Pitchfork,
14 Apr. 2026
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The key to calculating the amount of energy blasted out is realizing that the mass of a merger’s resulting black hole is not simply the sum of its progenitors.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
13 Feb. 2026
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Somewhere in Africa there is a city, town, or village where Henry Fordham’s progenitors lived and died for hundreds or thousands of years, where my distant relatives walk the streets today.—
Eugene Robinson,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 2026
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“Grandmothers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandmothers. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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