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Recent Examples of widow
Briar wears an all-covering black-widow outfit, with just one finger poking out.
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2026
He was hand picked by Jeopardy producers to succeed Trebek before his passing, and even got the blessing of the longtime host's widow, Jean Trebek.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Jan. 2026
Enter Cami Miller, Monty’s widow (Demi Moore, in the middle of a striking career resurgence).
—Michael M. Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2026
The film stars Sally Field as a widow who bonds with a giant Pacific octopus, while also connecting with a young man (Lewis Pullman) in need of direction.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 7 Jan. 2026
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2026
He was hand picked by Jeopardy producers to succeed Trebek before his passing, and even got the blessing of the longtime host's widow, Jean Trebek.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Jan. 2026
Enter Cami Miller, Monty’s widow (Demi Moore, in the middle of a striking career resurgence).
—Michael M. Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2026
The film stars Sally Field as a widow who bonds with a giant Pacific octopus, while also connecting with a young man (Lewis Pullman) in need of direction.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 7 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for widow
Noun
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In court Monday, attorneys for both Maduro and his wife requested that health and medical issues be attended to for their clients.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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Pratt and his wife, fellow Hills alum Heidi Montag, lost their home in the Palisades fire, which killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,000 structures last January.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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So Vrabel asked if Kraft would greenlight a trip for the spouses and significant others to tag along to New York for the Jets game, and the owner agreed.—
Chad Graff,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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Dead husbands and wives returned to seduce former spouses.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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How could the story of New York’s most notorious madam, a woman who had the likes of Dutch Schultz, Wallace Beery, Robert Benchley, and Dorothy Parker as regulars throughout the Roaring Twenties be boring?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Jan. 2026
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Many described Maxwell as acting as a madam who recruited them to give massages to Epstein.—
Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
13 Dec. 2025
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“Widow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/widow. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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