grandfather

"I suspect that nobody would have given the skull of his father or his grandfather as a gift to another person."

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

His grandfather was a barber; his cousin was a makeup artist in Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

Born Alan Howard Frieda in London in 1951, his father was a hairdresser who owned a salon in Ealing, west London, while his grandfather had also been a Fleet Street barber.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

My grandfather reasoned, if we could figure out how to culture pearls from the Australian oyster, we might be able to produce the most magnificent pearls in the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Well, he may not have wanted me to marry Jimmie, but he was tickled pink at the idea that I was carrying Jimmie’s child and that he was about to become a grandfather.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

"Dear fathers and grandfathers... treat your wives with respect, ask for forgiveness and live with integrity, even when doing so requires sacrifice," the head of the Catholic Church said during a homily in Uruguay.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

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

For Christmas in 1995, he handwrote that poem and gave it to his father and two grandfathers along with a pair of black socks each.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025

Born into a life of sumptuous privilege–his grandfathers were dukes, respectively, of Devonshire and Kent–he was the most gifted English scientist of his age, but also the strangest.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson