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the mother of your father or mother
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Recent Examples of grandmothers
The restaurant website notes that Schneider was inspired by his grandmothers' techniques to recreate their cooking with elements of his own creativity.
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Adam Harrington, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
What would our grandmothers have said?
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
Sperm whale families are composed of grandmothers, mothers, and daughters who live together for life, while the young males leave in their teenage years.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 Mar. 2026
Tommy disburses stuffings and sauces to hungry locals as the GIs seduced their grandmothers with Camels and nylon stockings.
—Dominic Green, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026
Just grandmothers and teenagers shaping each other — one sprint, one laugh, one first at a time.
—Emmanuel Igunza, NPR, 18 Mar. 2026
My Southern grandmothers both have had issues with sun damage spots at the doctor’s office to prove it, and now always remind me not to make their mistake.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2026
Inside, volunteer Finnish grandmothers brew bottomless coffee and prepare food, including munkki – signature donuts dangerous in their own way, especially the cinnamon ones.
—Liam Denning, Bloomberg, 12 Mar. 2026
On the occasion of Grandmothers' Day in France on Sunday, Rennes got players from both teams to walk onto the pitch accompanied by 22 grandmothers.
—ABC News, 28 Feb. 2026
Adam Harrington, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
What would our grandmothers have said?
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
Sperm whale families are composed of grandmothers, mothers, and daughters who live together for life, while the young males leave in their teenage years.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 Mar. 2026
Tommy disburses stuffings and sauces to hungry locals as the GIs seduced their grandmothers with Camels and nylon stockings.
—Dominic Green, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026
Just grandmothers and teenagers shaping each other — one sprint, one laugh, one first at a time.
—Emmanuel Igunza, NPR, 18 Mar. 2026
My Southern grandmothers both have had issues with sun damage spots at the doctor’s office to prove it, and now always remind me not to make their mistake.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2026
Inside, volunteer Finnish grandmothers brew bottomless coffee and prepare food, including munkki – signature donuts dangerous in their own way, especially the cinnamon ones.
—Liam Denning, Bloomberg, 12 Mar. 2026
On the occasion of Grandmothers' Day in France on Sunday, Rennes got players from both teams to walk onto the pitch accompanied by 22 grandmothers.
—ABC News, 28 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandmothers
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College-age amateurs competing alongside former champions old enough to be their grandfathers is a longstanding Masters tradition.—
Jack Leo,
AJC.com,
4 Apr. 2026
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Robert Pelot, the owner of Pelot’s Rexall Pharmacy, said it’s been in his family since one of his great-grandfathers moved to the Bradenton area from Indiana in the late 1800s.—
Amaia Gavica,
Miami Herald,
6 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Inouye said she was inspired to do this by none other than one of the matriarchs of the movement, Alice Waters of Berkeley’s Chez Panisse.—
Sean Timberlake,
Sacbee.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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Even outside of traditional television, the reality TV model has made millionaires of even more toxic matriarchs such as Ruby Framke, who amassed over 2 million YouTube subscribers by pimping out her children for clicks while criminally abusing them in secret.—
Tiana Lowe Doescher,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Mar. 2026
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Moritz Grossmann was one of the forefathers of German watchmaking in Glashütte.—
Victoria Gomelsky,
Robb Report,
30 Mar. 2026
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The clubs, civic organizations and community events that once brought our forefathers together are largely fading away.—
Judith Martin,
Dallas Morning News,
10 Mar. 2026
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However, some species occasionally behave in ways that recall their land-curious evolutionary ancestors.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
2 Apr. 2026
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Your hamburger’s ancestors are extinct.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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Yu, who died last year, had forebears.—
Eric Klinenberg,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Parks is known for paying homage to her forebears, and so Ambiguous Desire is also the result of extensive research into The Loft, Studio 54, and the history of raving.—
Aimee Cliff,
Pitchfork,
3 Apr. 2026
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The key to calculating the amount of energy blasted out is realizing that the mass of a merger’s resulting black hole is not simply the sum of its progenitors.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
13 Feb. 2026
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Somewhere in Africa there is a city, town, or village where Henry Fordham’s progenitors lived and died for hundreds or thousands of years, where my distant relatives walk the streets today.—
Eugene Robinson,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 2026
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