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the mother of your father or mother
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Recent Examples of grandmothers
Our grandmothers were queens of the freezer, along with a zillion other ways to avoid food waste.
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Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 8 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
In November, at one of Maalimisaq's last Motherhood Circle gatherings, Somali mothers and grandmothers volleyed questions at facilitators.
—CBS News, 6 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
The baby's name, Dianna, is a combination of her grandmothers' names, Diane and Anna.
—Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Jan. 2026
Our mothers represent something much more different to what their grandmothers experienced, for example.
—Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 12 Mar. 2025
Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 8 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
In November, at one of Maalimisaq's last Motherhood Circle gatherings, Somali mothers and grandmothers volleyed questions at facilitators.
—CBS News, 6 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
The baby's name, Dianna, is a combination of her grandmothers' names, Diane and Anna.
—Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Jan. 2026
Our mothers represent something much more different to what their grandmothers experienced, for example.
—Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 12 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandmothers
Noun
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My grandfathers had both been miners whose early deaths owed much to their working lives.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
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And the same impressive nature was true of both women's grandfathers, says Jones.—
Alex Ross,
PEOPLE,
20 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Louisiana matriarchs are partial to this vanilla custard pie.—
Cameron Beall,
Southern Living,
6 Feb. 2026
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Wife Swap attempted to answer this question, with everyday families with differing lifestyles swapping matriarchs for a couple weeks.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Feb. 2026
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Our forefathers fought the American Revolution to get away from a tyrannical monarch and indifferent legislators, not to create our own homegrown version of it.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Jan. 2026
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The Philadelphia Art Museum, the National Constitution Center, the Museum of the American Revolution, and smaller outfits like Eastern State Penitentiary and Historic Germantown will, as expected, reimagine the history of our republic in an homage to the forefathers’ ingenuity.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
5 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Connie Martin always knew who her ancestors were growing up.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Feb. 2026
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Some of those ancestors left Africa to explore Europe.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
4 Feb. 2026
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But beneath the surface, new technology promises Artemis astronauts mobility on the moon that their Apollo-era forebears could only dream about.—
K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
5 Feb. 2026
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However, teens and twentysomethings today are of a very different demographic and have markedly different media consumption habits compared to Wikipedia’s forebears.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 Jan. 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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Mamdani was born in Uganda to Indian parents, and Duwaji in Texas to Syrian Muslim progenitors.—
José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
2 Jan. 2026
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“Grandmothers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandmothers. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
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