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the mother of your father or mother
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Recent Examples of grandmothers
Monaleo shared some of her unique choices, such as making her and her partner's grandmothers the flower girls.
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Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
These mothers, grandmothers, and aunties have passed down more than techniques.
—Essence, 25 Sep. 2025
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, 24 Sep. 2025
While both her father and grandfather were American presidents, her mother (former first lady Laura Bush) and both of her grandmothers were librarians.
—Emily St. Martin, Oc Register, 24 Sep. 2025
Clinics were vandalized, pro-life organizations targeted, and activists urged the Biden administration to arrest grandmothers praying outside clinics.
—Amy Stephens, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
The subjects are teachers, nurses, business owners, an author, professional singers, retirees, mothers, grandmothers, wives, divorcees, cancer or trauma survivors and more.
—Point Loma-Ob Monthly, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
Police violence robbed Eleanor’s progeny of experiencing the often special relationship between grandmothers and grandchildren.
—Lashawn Harris
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
The sacred inheritance passed down from grandmothers who laughed even when there was little to laugh about, from church choirs that sang through sorrow, from front porches where stories and sweet tea flowed in equal measure.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
These mothers, grandmothers, and aunties have passed down more than techniques.
—Essence, 25 Sep. 2025
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, 24 Sep. 2025
While both her father and grandfather were American presidents, her mother (former first lady Laura Bush) and both of her grandmothers were librarians.
—Emily St. Martin, Oc Register, 24 Sep. 2025
Clinics were vandalized, pro-life organizations targeted, and activists urged the Biden administration to arrest grandmothers praying outside clinics.
—Amy Stephens, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
The subjects are teachers, nurses, business owners, an author, professional singers, retirees, mothers, grandmothers, wives, divorcees, cancer or trauma survivors and more.
—Point Loma-Ob Monthly, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
Police violence robbed Eleanor’s progeny of experiencing the often special relationship between grandmothers and grandchildren.
—Lashawn Harris
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
The sacred inheritance passed down from grandmothers who laughed even when there was little to laugh about, from church choirs that sang through sorrow, from front porches where stories and sweet tea flowed in equal measure.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandmothers
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Now a young man, he's recently started a new chapter as an Army private first class and plans to follow in his father's and grandfathers’ military footsteps.—
Susan Young,
People.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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The pride of Santa Elena's silletero families is palpable, with everyone from young children to grandmothers and grandfathers tracing the route of the culminating parade carrying their creations on their backs.—
Carley Rojas Ávila,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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From there, they are forced to deal with an aging group of matriarchs (June Squibb, Annette O’Toole and Marceline Hugot) who covertly run the town—not to mention the cold and calculating brothel manager Enid (Margo Martindale).—
Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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In most families, grandmothers are pillars of support, legendary cooks, the matriarchs who are the keepers of all the family's stories (and secrets), and the very willing babysitter who frequently sweeps in to save date night.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
14 Aug. 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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Demosponges are soft and squishy filter feeders and their ancestors likely shared similar characteristics.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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The African roots of cumbia are expressed not only through its percussion instruments - the tambor alegre, the llamador and the tambora - but also through the voices of ancestors reflected in the sung dances of the region.—
Karla Gachet,
NPR,
1 Oct. 2025
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Our forebears turned orchards into neighborhoods that welcomed us.—
Belal Aftab,
Mercury News,
30 Sep. 2025
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One wistful way to follow Redford’s career is to trace the paths not taken, and to set them beside the adventurous ones pursued by his contemporaries and forbears.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
18 Sep. 2025
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The pair's progenitors engaged in a rendezvous that stripped off the outer layers of proto-Charon to create a disk of icy debris.—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Space.com,
1 Sep. 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 6 Oct. 2025.
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