granny
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Her look evolves from a worn-out cog to a biker-like granny who’d seem natural riding on the back of Dennis Hopper’s hog.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
He added that he hoped his granny would recover enough to be able to come to his house on Christmas Day.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025
Her boss knows she travels a lot, often as the granny on call.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
When he moved out, Jamie went to live with his granny and one of his brothers.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025
From the front seat, the invisible granny laughed.
From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo
"Being around children keeps you young. Happy kids, happy mums, happy grannies!"
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
But Ben and his little brother were doted upon by all their adopted grannies and grandpas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2025
The Duchess of York was recently saying, "I can picture us being grannies together."
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2023
On occasion, the grannies do more than help out at bus stations.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
My tiny old gran was out the gate, going up and down the block, calling to all the other old grannies for an emergency prayer meeting.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
Even in the granniest of granny gears, it’s impossible for me to pedal smoothly up pitches with grades approaching, and sometimes exceeding, 13 percent.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022
