as in mom
a female human parent
I told my ma that on Mother's Day we'd be dining at the town's toniest restaurant
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Chiefs game Swift made headlines when she was photographed sitting next to Kelce's mom, Donna, at a Kansas City Chiefs game in September 2023.
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They were first spotted together as a couple in September 2023, when Swift attended a Kansas City Chiefs game alongside Kelce’s mom, Donna Kelce.
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The infant, who is 9 months old, was rescued along with her mother, the State Department told Fox News Digital.
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Parents wept over the loss of their children, while mothers and other female relatives cried and beat their chests in grief.
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My mama strains both the yogurt and the cucumber before mixing everything together.
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After making off with a substantial stack of cash from her job to fund a new life with boyfriend Sam Loomis (John Gavin), she gets waylaid by a rainstorm and stops to spend the night at the Bates Motel, run by awkward mama’s boy Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins).
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“Ma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ma. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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