in-law

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Recent Examples of in-law Two years after her death, her son King Charles and her granddaughter-in-law Kate Middleton announced their cancer diagnoses. Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 14 Sep. 2025 Is there tension in the in-law political leanings? Belinda Luscombe, Time, 10 Sep. 2025 Patterson’s mother and father in-law plus mother in-law’s sister died. Max Goldbart, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025 An essential item with a personalized touch that any in-law will love to add to their yoga or gym bag. Madeleine Bokan Thares, Glamour, 25 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for in-law
Recent Examples of Synonyms for in-law
Noun
  • For example, for a family of three paying $22,000 annual premiums with a $21,000 deductible is essentially paying mortgage on an expensive non-existent house.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • In her eight years practicing family law, Jackie Combs has helped her clients navigate many divorces.
    Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Elizabeth’s determination not to settle the succession gave rise to fierce rivalry between the claimants to the English throne, among them Mary, Queen of Scots and her son James VI; James’s cousin Arbella Stuart; Lady Katherine Grey and her descendants; and Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
  • According to a post on the Reddit Wedding Shaming forum, a woman detailed the fiasco surrounding her cousin’s wedding.
    Emily Strohm, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Under her plan, the county’s network of Live Well centers would be prime sites to house clinics and pharmacies for those unable to access public health care coverage.
    Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The novella is a haunted house, dual point of view ride where the metaphors from the top down are consistently delivered.
    Amber McBride, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The film ends with Dek standing alongside Thia and Bud, his new clan, as a large, menacing Yautja ship appears on the horizon.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Some of the Kardashian-Jenner clan of course—including sisters Kim Kardashian and Kendall Jenner—as well as fellow A-list stars such as Mariah Carey, Oprah Winfrey, Justin and Hailey Bieber, Sarah Paulson, Teyana Taylor and countless others.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 9 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The campaign reprises and expands the concept of the collection’s look book images unveiled earlier this year, which saw Michele’s tribe pictured on a bed, mainly sleeping but also occasionally playing the guitar, doing a crossword puzzle, taking selfies or having a snack.
    Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Federal land isn’t taxable, and the government holds most reservation land in trust for Native tribes, so it can’t be taxed, either.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The new congressional maps proposed by the state’s Democrats, which Proposition 50 will implement, are intended to net the party five additional seats in the House—but their actual impact will still depend on races in those districts.
    Solcyré Burga, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The tight race has surprised some in the traditionally blue state, which has had a Democratic governor for the past eight years and a legislature controlled by Democrats for even longer.
    Joe Hernandez, NPR, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Directed by Alicia Núñez Puerto, the short interweaves migration, past history and menstruation, presenting lineage as something carried across oceans and generations.
    Callum McLennan, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Breakker, real name Bronson Rechsteiner, is the son of Rick Steiner and nephew of Scott Steiner, giving him that wrestling lineage.
    Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025

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“In-law.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/in-law. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.

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