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Recent Examples of stepmother
His father, stepmother Melania, and younger brother Barron did not attend.
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Stylecaster Editors,
StyleCaster,
17 June 2026
Others pointed to family tensions, including Lizzie’s strained relationship with her stepmother.
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Sophia Zhang,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
16 June 2026
In your first section, Mary, who is raised by a Miwok stepmother, Saturnina, describes the family she was born into.
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Literary Hub,
16 June 2026
The previous two seasons of House of the Dragon set up the decades-long rivalry between the Crown Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) and her stepmother/former best friend Queen Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke).
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Nic Juarez,
Vulture,
15 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for stepmother
Stylecaster Editors,
StyleCaster,
17 June 2026
Others pointed to family tensions, including Lizzie’s strained relationship with her stepmother.
—
Sophia Zhang,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
16 June 2026
In your first section, Mary, who is raised by a Miwok stepmother, Saturnina, describes the family she was born into.
—
Literary Hub,
16 June 2026
The previous two seasons of House of the Dragon set up the decades-long rivalry between the Crown Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) and her stepmother/former best friend Queen Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke).
—
Nic Juarez,
Vulture,
15 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for stepmother
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stepmother
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On Thursday, as the UK endured its hottest June temperature on record, CNN visited the quarry where Dylan drowned, with his mom, Beckie Ramsay.
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Sugar reconnects with Blaine, the security guard who’d never seen Casablanca, a golden-age Hollywood classic his mom named him after.
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The May 28 fire tore through a dormitory housing 202 students at the Utumishi Girls School in central Kenya, and students were forced to flee through a single doorway when the school matron failed to open an emergency exit.
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The matron on duty, Annie Leewright, booked the woman into jail.
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The matriarchs who fed the team.
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Many first-generation wealth creators remain reluctant to relinquish control, particularly in Asia, where fortunes are often closely associated with a family patriarch or matriarch.
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My mama strains both the yogurt and the cucumber before mixing everything together.
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After making off with a substantial stack of cash from her job to fund a new life with boyfriend Sam Loomis (John Gavin), she gets waylaid by a rainstorm and stops to spend the night at the Bates Motel, run by awkward mama’s boy Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins).
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“Stepmother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stepmother. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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