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Recent Examples of widow
McPherson preached aboard the ship, and its passengers, spellbound by her blossoming charisma and moved by her plight, gathered just enough funds to buy the young widow and her baby train tickets to New York City, where Minnie would meet them in the fall of 1910.
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Casey Cep, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
Courtney Love also shelled out $2.6 million in 2001 for a fourth-floor loft, which the lead singer and guitarist of Hole and widow of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain offloaded in 2006 for $5 million after riling up neighbors with her famously precarious behavior.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2025
The Torah commands care for the orphan, widow, and stranger.
—Rev. Frank Alagna, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2025
Robinson's widow and daughter will deliver the lineup card before Tuesday's game.
—Troy Smith, Axios, 8 Apr. 2025
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Casey Cep, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
Courtney Love also shelled out $2.6 million in 2001 for a fourth-floor loft, which the lead singer and guitarist of Hole and widow of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain offloaded in 2006 for $5 million after riling up neighbors with her famously precarious behavior.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2025
The Torah commands care for the orphan, widow, and stranger.
—Rev. Frank Alagna, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2025
Robinson's widow and daughter will deliver the lineup card before Tuesday's game.
—Troy Smith, Axios, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for widow
Noun
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Meyer is survived by his parents, wife, three daughters and one son, according to Nance-Holt.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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Willie Nelson’s wife took issue with a social media post arguably implying the couple’s son is looking after his parents.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
26 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Now, returning to the relationship between Mrs. Vreeland and Pauline, remember that Vreeland was always enamored with the baroness.—
Ralph Rucci,
Robb Report,
20 Apr. 2025
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The grand staircase is no longer roped off, but welcoming people to ascend and Mrs. Frick’s boudoir, with its Boucher murals of frolicking angels, is back upstairs, having been returned to its original location.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
20 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Jennifer lives in Baltimore with her spouse, physicist Sean M. Carroll, and their two cats, Ariel and Caliban.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
18 Apr. 2025
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These documents include all income statements, including those of your spouse if filing jointly, data from other sources of earnings and your most recent income tax return.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Apr. 2025
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Obama's shocking upset over the madam-president-in-waiting was an inflection point for the institutional trajectory of the Democratic Party.—
Newsweek,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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Last summer, a local housekeeper inherited a few million dollars and some cats from her French madam, who shot herself on her Samui property.—
Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Widow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/widow. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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