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Recent Examples of in-law
An essential item with a personalized touch that any in-law will love to add to their yoga or gym bag.
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Madeleine Bokan Thares, Glamour, 25 Aug. 2025
The couple quickly arranged for Brielle to be picked up by Gislason's stepfather-in-law before heading to the car.
—Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025
Accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, are sometimes referred to as in-law units or backyard homes.
—Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2025
For the past 12 years, her parents have lived with her and her husband, who built an in-law suite for them.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Madeleine Bokan Thares, Glamour, 25 Aug. 2025
The couple quickly arranged for Brielle to be picked up by Gislason's stepfather-in-law before heading to the car.
—Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025
Accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, are sometimes referred to as in-law units or backyard homes.
—Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2025
For the past 12 years, her parents have lived with her and her husband, who built an in-law suite for them.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for in-law
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The typical price of a single-family home in the United States is about $368,000, jumping roughly 13% over the past 5 years and 38% over the last decade, the ABC News data team found.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 Sep. 2025
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Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
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After the eighth-generation jeweler Munnu Kasliwal died in 2012, his son Siddharth took over, and today runs the business alongside his brother, cousins, and uncle.—
Gayatri Shah,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Sep. 2025
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That unusually low resonance makes nuclear clocks uniquely suited to timekeeping at the nuclear scale, and sets them apart from their atomic cousins.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
16 Sep. 2025
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In the last fortnight alone, Starmer's Deputy Prime Minister and close ally Angela Rayner has resigned after a house tax scandal, triggering a major cabinet reshuffle.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
17 Sep. 2025
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The weighty Guerlain Rouge G case comes in a wide variety of fabrics, colors, and textures—glossy tortoiseshell, embossed gold, glittering crystals—that house one of the most luxurious lipstick formulas on the market.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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After provoking the ire of the college kids, Madea and her clan are subjected to a series of ghoulish pranks.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Sep. 2025
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Yet the unit also targets dissenters and those, including various clans, some backed by Israel, that dare to defy Hamas’s rule.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Grey’s son, Loren Grey, restored his father’s original ending in the novel’s 1982 Pocket Books reprint, but the vanishing mythos remains intact, with the last of the tribe wistfully following Curtis’s Navajo into the temporal graveyard of the past.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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That dire warning aside, California tribes are also suing for a preliminary injunction against Kalshi to block its prediction markets.—
Contessa Brewer,Alex Sherman,
CNBC,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Arizona Diamondbacks have clawed their way into the heat of a playoff race as the New York Mets continue to collapse down the stretch.—
Hunter Mulholland,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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He was known for his controversial political and social takes related to race, gun violence and immigration, and had an audience of millions of viewers and listeners across various platforms.—
Connor Greene,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
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The result is a Gen Z-meets-mini-Nicole moment that feels like a respectful nod to her famous family lineage.—
Olivia Allen,
Vogue,
12 Sep. 2025
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Agriodontosaurus shows us that the earliest members of the lizard lineage were far more diverse and had a much broader range of feeding strategies than previously imagined.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Sep. 2025
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“In-law.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/in-law. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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