granny
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However, with a sly smile Kennedy confesses that her granny "would have been absolutely tickled pink to think of Gillian Anderson playing her".
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Even though our granny was, like all people in the mountains, well acquainted with Dolly by that point, she was still transfixed.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
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
"And now of course I'm a granny myself, so maybe that's what spurred me on."
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
He reached for it “Let me see what your granny packed.”
From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe
The treated mice were known as "supermodel grannies" in the lab because of their youthful appearance.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2024
Squibb has played plenty of cackling grannies; even so, Ms. Sturak is her most unhinged.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
These days no one would suggest that Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who is 62, could only play grannies any more than they would say that Tom Cruise, 61, should stop parachuting off cliffs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
The Duchess of York was recently saying, "I can picture us being grannies together."
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2023
“Harmless old grannies, children, people who don’t have anything to do with Capricorn?”
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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
