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Recent Examples of stepmotherUpon 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.—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 See All Example Sentences for stepmother
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.
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Liza Tully,
People.com,
6 July 2025
Mary Thema, a clinical matron at Kadoma General Hospital, says Kelly’s case underlines this challenge.
Curtis plays Donna Berzatto, the matriarch of the Berzatto family, on The Bear.
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Carson Blackwelder,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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.
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.
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Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
Basically, Belly’s mom, Laurel, and the Fisher mama, Susannah, do a joint family vacay every summer at Susannah’s family beach house.
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