grandfather
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"My grandfather was my role model growing up," she wrote.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
“My grandfather was my role model growing up,” she wrote on the team’s fundraising page.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Rachel Apa, from Lewisberry, Pennsylvania, was running on Sunday with the Parkinson's Foundation Champions to raise money and honor her grandfather who had the disease, she said in a fundraising page.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Beth Lew-Williams, a historian at Princeton University, only discovered two weeks before her grandfather died in 2002 that he had been a paper son.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
It was far from Togbe’s, but his grandfather had been a fisherman too, and his grandmother a clam trader.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
But for most of my life, they felt like the domain of grandfathers, finance bros and people who knew what vermouth was without having to Google it.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
“We’re asking airmen to strap into jets that their grandfathers, fathers and now they are flying, and it is time for a reset,” said Doug Birkey, executive director of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
She acknowledged that it was still "not enough" and promised a "special plan for our grandfathers and grandmothers."
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
Baba is a commonly used term in India to refer to mystics and religious gurus and also to fathers or grandfathers by both Hindus and Muslims.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026
There were the legacy kids, whose fathers and grandfathers had been Tigers or whose families had funded the building of a dorm or a library.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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