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mammies

noun

plural of mammy

as in mothers

a female human parent the toddler clung to her mammy and eyed the strangers fearfully

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Recent Examples of mammies These include typecasting Black women as jezebels, sapphires and mammies; these depictions, combined with the law enforcement they may be exposed to, increase their vulnerability under the law. — Kerry Lester Kasper, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025

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For Salvadoran-American food historian Karla Tatiana Vasquez, what started as a quest to document the recipes of her past transformed into the preservation of history from the spoken accounts of grandmothers, mothers and friends.

— Candy Hom, AJC.com, 4 Oct. 2026
With soaring childcare costs pushing young mothers out of the workforce, private investment in early learning is likely to keep drawing attention.

— Fernanda Tronco, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

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Separately, the pediatricians recommend a vaccine-like medication for those infants whose moms weren't vaccinated and some other high-risk babies.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
After consumers responded favorably to this more authentic casting, Jerome Bettis and Michael Strahan got in the soup-shilling game with their respective moms.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 30 Sep. 2026

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