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the mother of your father or mother
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Recent Examples of grandmothers
Tommy disburses stuffings and sauces to hungry locals as the GIs seduced their grandmothers with Camels and nylon stockings.
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Dominic Green, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026
Just grandmothers and teenagers shaping each other — one sprint, one laugh, one first at a time.
—Emmanuel Igunza, NPR, 18 Mar. 2026
My Southern grandmothers both have had issues with sun damage spots at the doctor’s office to prove it, and now always remind me not to make their mistake.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2026
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.
—ABC News, 28 Feb. 2026
The tune is a deeply emotional, autobiographical jazz ballad about guidance, resilience, and the wisdom passed down through generations, especially from mothers and grandmothers.
—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
Dominic Green, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026
Just grandmothers and teenagers shaping each other — one sprint, one laugh, one first at a time.
—Emmanuel Igunza, NPR, 18 Mar. 2026
My Southern grandmothers both have had issues with sun damage spots at the doctor’s office to prove it, and now always remind me not to make their mistake.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2026
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.
—ABC News, 28 Feb. 2026
The tune is a deeply emotional, autobiographical jazz ballad about guidance, resilience, and the wisdom passed down through generations, especially from mothers and grandmothers.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandmothers
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Robert Pelot, the owner of Pelot’s Rexall Pharmacy, said it’s been in his family since one of his great-grandfathers moved to the Bradenton area from Indiana in the late 1800s.—
Amaia Gavica,
Miami Herald,
6 Mar. 2026
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Is this the noble cause that our grandfathers would have shed their blood for 85 years ago?—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
4 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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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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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 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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Our ancient ancestors loved their birch tar.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
18 Mar. 2026
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Local historians in Wyandotte County have long documented the arduous journeys that their ancestors, and those of many Kansas City, Kansas residents, made to find freedom from slavery.—
Sofi Zeman,
Kansas City Star,
15 Mar. 2026
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There is plenty about Norris to make fun of, but I’d be thrilled if today’s MAGA bros honored their forbears and were slightly less histrionic.—
John DeVore,
Rolling Stone,
20 Mar. 2026
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That was how so many of their forebears settled here, having survived slavery and Jim Crow, working land some of the families own to this day.—
Molly Hennessy-Fiske,
Washington Post,
19 Mar. 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 25 Mar. 2026.
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