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The infant was in bed between her 26-year-old mother and her stepfather in the family’s apartment in NYCHA’s Queensbridge North Houses when the couple woke up about 6:30 a.m. and saw the puppy biting the baby’s face, cops were told.
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Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 27 May 2025
Rip had murdered his stepfather to protect his mother, who succumbed to the abuse by her husband.
—Christina Dugan Ramirez , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 25 May 2025
Her stepfather Peter Schuman, 57, of Buena Park, has also been charged with two felonies related to insurance fraud and helping commit a crime.
—CBS News, 22 May 2025
Federal officials allege that Dickson communicated on Kik Messenger with an FBI Online Covert Employee in September 2023 who was posing as the stepfather of a 14-year-old girl in Connecticut.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 8 May 2025
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Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 27 May 2025
Rip had murdered his stepfather to protect his mother, who succumbed to the abuse by her husband.
—Christina Dugan Ramirez , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 25 May 2025
Her stepfather Peter Schuman, 57, of Buena Park, has also been charged with two felonies related to insurance fraud and helping commit a crime.
—CBS News, 22 May 2025
Federal officials allege that Dickson communicated on Kik Messenger with an FBI Online Covert Employee in September 2023 who was posing as the stepfather of a 14-year-old girl in Connecticut.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 8 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stepfather
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The report’s release occurred shortly after a case came to light of a Waterbury man who escaped his home after allegedly being held captive by his stepmother for two decades.—
Emilia Otte,
Hartford Courant,
6 June 2025
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Matson's father and stepmother aren't planning on attending the ceremony.—
David Oliver,
USA Today,
6 June 2025
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The 69-year-old hails from an ethnically mixed family – his father is Azeri and his mother is Kurdish.—
Nadeen Ebrahim,
CNN,
6 July 2024
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And if your mother doesn't feel comfortable setting her own boundary, offer to be her excuse.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Washington Post,
6 July 2024
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First of all, my dad was a big baseball fan and grew up watching the Yankees.—
Sean Gregory,
Time,
6 June 2025
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Austin shot his dad to protect Georgia and witnessed his mom suffocate Tom.—
Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
6 June 2025
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After seeing images of the vandalism on her social media feeds, Kimiko Carpenter, a West L.A. mom and hospice volunteer, stopped at Anawalt Lumber to buy $50 worth of rags, gloves, scraping brushes and canisters of graffiti remover.—
Hailey Branson-Potts,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2025
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My mom has traveled throughout the world for nearly 42 years and prides herself on never checking a bag.—
Rylee Johnston,
Travel + Leisure,
13 June 2025
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Half of the parents also remarried within five years of divorce, introducing stepparents to children's lives, and adding more dependents to the household as a result.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 June 2025
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This way, parents, stepparents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and older siblings can all contribute directly to whoever may need the planning.—
Cicely Jones,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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In a May 29 filing, Jackson requested that the court order their daughter Juno, 5, to continue attending the same Calabasas school for the 2025-26 school year and for both parents to reach an agreement before any school change is made.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
4 June 2025
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Steinwald grew up in Germany hiking in the Alps with her parents.—
Nicole Blanchard,
Idaho Statesman,
4 June 2025
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“Stepfather.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stepfather. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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