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the mother of your father or mother
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Recent Examples of grandmothers
On the occasion of Grandmothers' Day in France on Sunday, Rennes got players from both teams to walk onto the pitch accompanied by 22 grandmothers.
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ABC News, 28 Feb. 2026
Cooking a great meal and setting the table with tapers, vintage glassware, my favorite linens from my mom, and using my grandmothers silver serving pieces is truly my love language.
—Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 27 Feb. 2026
The show was inspired by a conversation between women about their mothers and grandmothers growing food.
—Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 27 Feb. 2026
In North Philadelphia, a group of grandmothers is making sure no one has to do it alone.
—Wakisha Bailey, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
That looks like grandmothers delivering hot meals to those on the frontlines.
—Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 7 Feb. 2026
Both of my grandmothers recounted their version about the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2026
American women today are having fewer children than their mothers and grandmothers did.
—Sarah McCammon, NPR, 28 Jan. 2026
Guests dined on a menu inspired by a collection of the couple's family history and memories, including a dim sum cocktail hour, and matzo ball soup, which was a mix of the couple’s grandmothers’ recipe.
—Emily Strohm, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
ABC News, 28 Feb. 2026
Cooking a great meal and setting the table with tapers, vintage glassware, my favorite linens from my mom, and using my grandmothers silver serving pieces is truly my love language.
—Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 27 Feb. 2026
The show was inspired by a conversation between women about their mothers and grandmothers growing food.
—Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 27 Feb. 2026
In North Philadelphia, a group of grandmothers is making sure no one has to do it alone.
—Wakisha Bailey, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
That looks like grandmothers delivering hot meals to those on the frontlines.
—Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 7 Feb. 2026
Both of my grandmothers recounted their version about the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2026
American women today are having fewer children than their mothers and grandmothers did.
—Sarah McCammon, NPR, 28 Jan. 2026
Guests dined on a menu inspired by a collection of the couple's family history and memories, including a dim sum cocktail hour, and matzo ball soup, which was a mix of the couple’s grandmothers’ recipe.
—Emily Strohm, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandmothers
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His grandfathers, fishermen Pietro Tarantino and Gaetano D’Acquisto, immigrated to the area from Porticello, Sicily, in the early 1900s and settled in Little Italy.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Feb. 2026
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Sweet Country was about our grandfathers, who were taken as children to become slaves on cattle stations, on ranches.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Feb. 2026
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At Santa Teresita’s Xokol, chef Xrysw Ruelas is a storyteller of ancestral Mexican ingredients and matriarchs.—
Matt Ortile,
Condé Nast Traveler,
19 Feb. 2026
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Louisiana matriarchs are partial to this vanilla custard pie.—
Cameron Beall,
Southern Living,
6 Feb. 2026
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The Nuggets forefathers witnessed him before the rest of Denver, as if it was meant to be that Jamal Murray would become one of them.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
15 Feb. 2026
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Yet, without ceasing, another generation of Puerto Ricans pick up the mantle to chant in the streets and fight for their country, out of love for their forefathers and foremothers.—
Taylor Crumpton,
Time,
10 Feb. 2026
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The point is to have enough free-ranging bison to provide tribal members with the hunts, the food, and the presence that connect them to their ancestors.—
Christine Peterson,
Outdoor Life,
5 Mar. 2026
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Intelligent, tool-using species — including our direct ancestors — have been around for millions of years.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
4 Mar. 2026
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Infiniti’s look called to mind two legendary forebears.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
1 Mar. 2026
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Another camp speculates that these forebears met human nomads on the trail of big game and started traveling with them, eventually arriving in China via Mongolia through their supporting role as war dogs.—
Andrew Norman Wilson,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 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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