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Recent Examples of stepmother
Upon her wedding, Princess Beatrice also became the first member of the royal family in her generation to take on the role of a stepparent, becoming a stepmother to Edo's now-9-year-old son, Christopher Woolf, whom the family calls Wolfie.
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Meredith Kile, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Within two months, my stepmother sold the house to a developer, who tore it down.
—Jeanie Riess, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2025
Wright does a fantastic job at heightening the material through a fairy tale aesthetic, with the snowy wilderness acting as an enchanted forest of sorts, with Marissa filling the wicked stepmother/witch role, and with Hanna acting as both a hunter and child in peril.
—Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Discovering the leak and seeing reporters outside his apartment, Matheo takes a laptop left by his girlfriend—containing sensitive files—to 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister’s official residence, where his stepmother is present.
—Time, 21 Aug. 2025
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Meredith Kile, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Within two months, my stepmother sold the house to a developer, who tore it down.
—Jeanie Riess, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2025
Wright does a fantastic job at heightening the material through a fairy tale aesthetic, with the snowy wilderness acting as an enchanted forest of sorts, with Marissa filling the wicked stepmother/witch role, and with Hanna acting as both a hunter and child in peril.
—Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Discovering the leak and seeing reporters outside his apartment, Matheo takes a laptop left by his girlfriend—containing sensitive files—to 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister’s official residence, where his stepmother is present.
—Time, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stepmother
Noun
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Her mom was registered in a kennel, but father apparently not (that's most likely the reason).—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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Then, her mom's arthritis flared up.—
Bailey Schulz,
USA Today,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The two women couldn’t be more different, but when a wealthy matron is found dead of an apparent suicide on the rocky shore of Vermont’s Lake Champlain, their fraught relationship gradually turns into a productive collaboration, despite Olivia’s missteps.—
Liza Tully,
People.com,
6 July 2025
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Mary Thema, a clinical matron at Kadoma General Hospital, says Kelly’s case underlines this challenge.—
Cynthia Tully,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
Noun
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Curtis plays Donna Berzatto, the matriarch of the Berzatto family, on The Bear.—
Carson Blackwelder,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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The subject of a true-crime podcast and television specials, the complicated family drama with its matriarch at the forefront was among this summer’s criminal cases of intrigue.—
Lauren del Valle,
CNN Money,
6 Sep. 2025
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Out of more than a million votes, the mama bear received more than 70,000 votes, while Chunk, estimated to be 30 years old, netted nearly 30,000 votes, according to the competition's website.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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Basically, Belly’s mom, Laurel, and the Fisher mama, Susannah, do a joint family vacay every summer at Susannah’s family beach house.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Stepmother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stepmother. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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