grandmother
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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
For Uttapa, 17, these interactions seemed authentic; he is a second-generation Mexican American whose grandmother came to the U.S. from Mexico, while his mother was born here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Her American grandfather fought in Vietnam and met her grandmother there.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
“My mother looked after my grandmother and then after my grandfather. Today I look after my parents.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
The door flies open, and a woman who must be our grandmother runs out and takes Mother into her arms, saying, “Hijica, hijica, you are here!”
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
One study has shown reduced mortality rates for women who became grandmothers after the age of 50.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
“Some folks are saying ‘I like the idea of going after criminals, but I don’t like the school raids and targeting grandmothers.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 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
They died with their mothers and their grandmothers and their sisters and their aunties.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
