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the mother of your father or mother
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Recent Examples of grandmothers
The ticket counter is now a welcome desk, and the benches by the entrance and the old coat check hold glass vitrines of pricey artwork and jewelry, not waiting grandmothers.
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Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 7 Nov. 2025
No doubt many grandmothers will want to scold us, but the truth is, soap isn't going to destroy your cast iron pans.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2025
In addition to Prime Minister, the company’s recent releases include Nonnas, the Vince Vaughn feature about a man who honors his late mother by opening a restaurant that hires Italian grandmothers as the chefs.
—Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
Anna now has a daughter of her own and soon, a stepdaughter and there’s a swap between grandmothers, granddaughters and step daughters.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
My great-grandmothers on both sides sewed clothes for their families, and my own sewing machine belonged to my grandmother, who used it to hem trousers for years.
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
In a touch of magical realism, Dolores hears a chorus of voices made up of her deceased female relatives, including her two mothers, aunts, great-aunts and grandmothers, commenting on her decisions.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
As The Atlantic has previously reported, American parents are relying on grandparents—especially grandmothers—for dedicated caregiving in ways that their counterparts in previous generations didn’t.
—Marina Lopes, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2025
Monaleo shared some of her unique choices, such as making her and her partner's grandmothers the flower girls.
—Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 7 Nov. 2025
No doubt many grandmothers will want to scold us, but the truth is, soap isn't going to destroy your cast iron pans.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2025
In addition to Prime Minister, the company’s recent releases include Nonnas, the Vince Vaughn feature about a man who honors his late mother by opening a restaurant that hires Italian grandmothers as the chefs.
—Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
Anna now has a daughter of her own and soon, a stepdaughter and there’s a swap between grandmothers, granddaughters and step daughters.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
My great-grandmothers on both sides sewed clothes for their families, and my own sewing machine belonged to my grandmother, who used it to hem trousers for years.
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
In a touch of magical realism, Dolores hears a chorus of voices made up of her deceased female relatives, including her two mothers, aunts, great-aunts and grandmothers, commenting on her decisions.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
As The Atlantic has previously reported, American parents are relying on grandparents—especially grandmothers—for dedicated caregiving in ways that their counterparts in previous generations didn’t.
—Marina Lopes, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2025
Monaleo shared some of her unique choices, such as making her and her partner's grandmothers the flower girls.
—Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandmothers
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In his latest partnership with Ancestry as part of the organization’s Thank You for Your Service campaign, Bass got to learn even more about both of his grandfathers’ service in the war.—
Stephen Daw,
Billboard,
5 Nov. 2025
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Civil Code Section 4740 grandfathers rental prohibitions, while Section 4741 bans rental prohibitions and unreasonable restrictions.—
Kelly G. Richardson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Nov. 2025
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Unable to attend the hearings to hear those words were Joan and Terry, the aging family matriarchs who have never wavered in their support, the cousins said.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
12 Oct. 2025
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Keaton became the go-to actress for family matriarchs and long-suffering wives in the years that followed, with memorable performances in The Other Sister, The Family Stone, and Town & Country.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2025
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And while the words may sting, our forefathers would surely agree that the First Amendment exists precisely to protect even the harshest political speech.—
Letters to the Editor,
Oc Register,
25 Sep. 2025
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The composer mashes together elements of forefathers who were themselves notorious mashers-up of traditions.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
22 Sep. 2025
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Her ancestors were from Russia, who later fled to Ukraine and settled in Philadelphia.—
Colleen Kratofil,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
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The idea was to go back to the basic foods that their ancestors ate.—
Chrystle Fiedler,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
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Yet while most wound up being little more than footnotes in the books, Lamborghini managed to build a new mid-engined monster that would prove a successful successor to its forebears on children’s bedroom walls and in rich men’s driveways alike.—
Will Sabel Courtney,
Robb Report,
6 Nov. 2025
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Hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in the generative-AI industry, and the companies—like their social-media forebears—will seek returns.—
Damon Beres,
The Atlantic,
5 Nov. 2025
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Astronomers have long puzzled over the apparent lack of luminous red supergiant stars in pre-explosion images, even though models predict that these stars should dominate the population of core-collapse supernova progenitors.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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Though some futuristic progenitors didn’t make the original project (there’s still time for a deluxe), many listeners are celebrating the project as a cross-generational mesh of Atlanta greatness.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Grandmothers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandmothers. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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