maternal
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My maternal grandfather ran a social club in New Jersey, a games parlor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
McCourt, a professor of maternal and child health at City St George's at the University of London, is chairing the review.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
While maternal mortality review committees closely examine the deaths of mothers during the first year of a child's life, the researchers say paternal mortality has received little comparable attention.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
She started with her maternal grandmother and worked her way back through time using public archives in the Netherlands until she stumbled upon a painter she had never heard of: Jeremias Schultz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
I suspect that the distinction between a maternal and a paternal instinct is scarcely worth making; the parental instinct, the wish to protect, to further, is not a sex-linked characteristic….
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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