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Recent Examples of stepmother
Betty Kovacs, the eldest daughter of comedian Ernie Kovacs who with her sister Kippie and stepmother, actress-singer Edie Adams, was at the center of a nasty custody battle that kept Hollywood riveted in 1962, has died.
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Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
29 June 2026
At a memorial for Jordan on June 20, 2025, his father, Seth Jordan, and his stepmother, Aubrey Fong, displayed a posterboard with smiling photos of the purple-haired young man.
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Ariane Lange,
Sacbee.com,
23 June 2026
Gledhill's father and stepmother were in court on Monday, but not his mother Wendy Gledhill, the girlfriend of Handy.
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Kathleen Perricone,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 June 2026
Neither woman could have known the moment, later captured on video by Bartlett's stepmother, would become one of their final memories together.
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Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
23 June 2026
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Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
29 June 2026
At a memorial for Jordan on June 20, 2025, his father, Seth Jordan, and his stepmother, Aubrey Fong, displayed a posterboard with smiling photos of the purple-haired young man.
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Ariane Lange,
Sacbee.com,
23 June 2026
Gledhill's father and stepmother were in court on Monday, but not his mother Wendy Gledhill, the girlfriend of Handy.
—
Kathleen Perricone,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 June 2026
Neither woman could have known the moment, later captured on video by Bartlett's stepmother, would become one of their final memories together.
—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
23 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stepmother
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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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Since then, Hills has worked in various hospitals and wards, including spending 10 years as a ward sister and a matron, which are both senior roles for nurses.
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How did a young Upper East Side matron with a small daughter and a dormant career as an art historian get here?
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Brown remembered that Sarah Parsley, the octogenarian matriarch of the family, greeted partygoers from a wheelchair, assisted by a Black nurse.
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After high school, the Kelce matriarch became the first person in her family to graduate from college, earning a bachelor’s degree in communications from Ohio University.
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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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“Stepmother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stepmother. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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