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the mother of your father or mother
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Recent Examples of grandmothers
The subjects are teachers, nurses, business owners, an author, professional singers, retirees, mothers, grandmothers, wives, divorcees, cancer or trauma survivors and more.
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Point Loma-Ob Monthly, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
Everyone on the panel shared how their mothers and grandmothers were powerful influences and how beauty is about more than physical appearance.
—Larry Stansbury, Essence, 12 Sep. 2025
Some might be familiar with sour cream biscuits served in miniature form at classic Southern restaurants as just a nibble to snack on while at the table; others might remember their grandmothers mixing up the simple delights on lazy Sunday afternoons.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2025
Police violence robbed Eleanor’s progeny of experiencing the often special relationship between grandmothers and grandchildren.
—Lashawn Harris
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
The sacred inheritance passed down from grandmothers who laughed even when there was little to laugh about, from church choirs that sang through sorrow, from front porches where stories and sweet tea flowed in equal measure.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
All around the arena, people embraced their friends, kissed their grandmothers, and cried into the arms of their mothers.
—Adrian Florido, NPR, 16 Aug. 2025
In most families, grandmothers are pillars of support, legendary cooks, the matriarchs who are the keepers of all the family's stories (and secrets), and the very willing babysitter who frequently sweeps in to save date night.
—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 14 Aug. 2025
My grandmothers weren’t like that, either.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025
Point Loma-Ob Monthly, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
Everyone on the panel shared how their mothers and grandmothers were powerful influences and how beauty is about more than physical appearance.
—Larry Stansbury, Essence, 12 Sep. 2025
Some might be familiar with sour cream biscuits served in miniature form at classic Southern restaurants as just a nibble to snack on while at the table; others might remember their grandmothers mixing up the simple delights on lazy Sunday afternoons.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2025
Police violence robbed Eleanor’s progeny of experiencing the often special relationship between grandmothers and grandchildren.
—Lashawn Harris
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
The sacred inheritance passed down from grandmothers who laughed even when there was little to laugh about, from church choirs that sang through sorrow, from front porches where stories and sweet tea flowed in equal measure.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
All around the arena, people embraced their friends, kissed their grandmothers, and cried into the arms of their mothers.
—Adrian Florido, NPR, 16 Aug. 2025
In most families, grandmothers are pillars of support, legendary cooks, the matriarchs who are the keepers of all the family's stories (and secrets), and the very willing babysitter who frequently sweeps in to save date night.
—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 14 Aug. 2025
My grandmothers weren’t like that, either.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandmothers
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Now a young man, he's recently started a new chapter as an Army private first class and plans to follow in his father's and grandfathers’ military footsteps.—
Susan Young,
People.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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The pride of Santa Elena's silletero families is palpable, with everyone from young children to grandmothers and grandfathers tracing the route of the culminating parade carrying their creations on their backs.—
Carley Rojas Ávila,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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From there, they are forced to deal with an aging group of matriarchs (June Squibb, Annette O’Toole and Marceline Hugot) who covertly run the town—not to mention the cold and calculating brothel manager Enid (Margo Martindale).—
Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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In most families, grandmothers are pillars of support, legendary cooks, the matriarchs who are the keepers of all the family's stories (and secrets), and the very willing babysitter who frequently sweeps in to save date night.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
14 Aug. 2025
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The findings suggest that alcohol is a regular part of a chimpanzee’s diet and may have been a part of our human ancestors’ diets.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Sep. 2025
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Scientists are similarly investigating endophytes of ancient wheat varieties, which, like corn’s ancestors, are more disease-resistant than modern varieties.—
Anna Marija Helt,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Sep. 2025
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The album only passingly cares about the signature dance-pop gunk of its 2010s and ’20s peers and forebears and doesn’t (like songs by Gomez, Addison Rae, and others) spend much time exploring Lana Del Rey as a subgenre.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
3 Sep. 2025
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Once upon a time, scholars thought that human evolution was a march of progress in which our forebears evolved in linear fashion from an apelike ancestor to a series of increasingly humanlike forms.—
Kate Wong,
Scientific American,
13 Aug. 2025
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The pair's progenitors engaged in a rendezvous that stripped off the outer layers of proto-Charon to create a disk of icy debris.—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Space.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Though some futuristic progenitors didn’t make the original project (there’s still time for a deluxe), many listeners are celebrating the project as a cross-generational mesh of Atlanta greatness.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Grandmothers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandmothers. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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