Thesaurus results for MOMS

moms

noun

Definition of moms next

plural of mom

as in mothers

a female human parent be sure to tell your mom and dad that you'll be home late for supper

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Recent Examples of moms Silky moms tend to favor hospital births and are more open to formula feeding and scheduled vaccinations. —

Jana Pollack, Parents, 6 Mar. 2026 The club will be giving $15,000 in educational grants to 12 women, mostly single moms, enrolled in local trade schools and colleges. —

Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026 Indeed, this feels to me very much like a play a writer would write after being stuck for months in a house with teens, aching to live their lives and sometimes seeing their loving parents as captors, even as moms and dads just tried to hold their lives together. —

Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026 Rachel became engrossed in Facebook videos of other moms who were documenting their families’ self-deportation process and describing their relief to be out of the United States. —

Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026 Is charging parents for advice a way of capitalizing on moms’ fears? —

Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2026 Amanda Kohr Crickets – After the disappearance of their first-place teammate, a group of competitive teen dancers and their stage moms begin to unravel, exposing the brutal cost of girlhood, ambition, and the need to be loved. —

Katie Campione, Deadline, 2 Mar. 2026 Rx Kids focuses on areas with high need — measured by child poverty and maternal and infant health — but is open to moms regardless of income. —

Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 2 Mar. 2026 Watch the video above to see how this special gift is changing the lives of single moms. —

Ronnie Li, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026

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Barnes credits the civil rights era and especially mothers with helping de-popularize blackface in the 1970s, first in schools and then in the larger culture.

— Terry Gross, NPR, 9 Mar. 2026
This reality forces parents, usually mothers, to cut back their hours, turn down opportunities, or leave the workforce.

— Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2026