grandmother
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She had set up folding chair next to the turnstiles with her mother and grandmother -- their beds for the next hours.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Their grandmother, Rae, escaped from a Jewish ghetto in what was then the Polish city of Novogrudok by clawing her way through a tunnel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Her grandmother, the first woman his grandfather married, presided as matriarch over a farm where the wives lived together, and often helped choose the newcomers herself.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has said the boy experienced school-related stress, and his dead grandmother was a former teacher who had been "quite strict on him about studying".
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
Then the goslings waddled over and started inspecting their robotic grandmother.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
Davids — who grew up in South Africa, where culturally it’s common for grandmothers to administer enemas to children in rural areas — does a coffee enema twice per month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
That legacy helps explain why in a male-dominated sport, men direct their hopes upward and outward—to mothers, wives, grandmothers and the Virgin herself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
But when I went down for Gamble’s trial, I found instead a place where the Southern grandmothers were rising to the occasion.
From Slate ● May 4, 2026
A group of grandmothers formed an unlikely friendship with a pro wrestler during an emotional trip to Las Vegas to scatter a late husband's ashes.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
I try and take a deep breath, but I'm too squeezed in the small, hot space between the grandmothers.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
