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stepmother

noun

Definition of stepmother

as in mom

a woman that your father marries after his marriage to or relationship with your mother has ended

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Recent Examples of stepmother Under the restrictions ordered by the court, Sabatino is only allowed to contact his attorney and one member of his family, his stepmother. — Jim Defede, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026 Alix Earle’s stepmother opened up about the choices that once made her tabloid fodder, including her connection to the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal and her affair with the influencer’s married father. — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026 In the Rockwell wing, Leonardo DiCaprio lingered over each painting alongside his girlfriend, Vittoria Ceretti, father, George DiCaprio, and stepmother, Peggy Ann Farrar. — Paul Chi, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2026 For Sung, the challenge was finding continuity in a character who ages from a lovestruck young woman into a wife, mother and stepmother across shifting timelines and an uncertain grip on her own past. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for stepmother

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Ronika evolves as the scene shifts to Blair’s home (which confusingly has the same layout as Zoe’s house in Michael Kramer’s eye-catching scenic design) for the home funeral of their TV mom.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
How protecting his mom created the 'Squatter Hunter' Shelton says none of this started as a business idea.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of mom

Noun

The driver and bus matron apparently bypassed the daycare location and mistakenly dropped Ka'Mylah somewhere in between, and the child navigated her way home on her own.

— Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2026
An extremely unattractive teenage girl who resembled a forty-year-old matron in a women’s prison rather than a young woman fresh on the road to self-discovery approached me.

— Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of matron

Noun

His first project at the house was a film starring Demi Moore that imagined Gucci as a family business owned by a wealthy matriarch in California.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 26 Sep. 2026
The pic has Lange playing the emotionally troubled and addiction-plagued matriarch Mary Tyrone.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of matriarch

Noun

Hall’s recipe uses a classic combination of stone-ground grits, milk, water, and salt, but the Nashville native’s cooking technique may be different than the one your mama taught you.

— Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2026
But with Earle coming into the ring with fighting words, who says a mama bear can’t bite back?

— Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026

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