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mama

[mah-muh, muh-mah] / ˈmɑ mə, məˈmɑ /




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Let’s assume that if you’re reading this far, you already know the first movie’s big twist: the real killer wasn’t Jason Voorhees, but his mad mama.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

She grew up in poverty and in her 1971 hit Coat of Many Colours describes how she would wear rags which her "mama" had knitted together to school.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

“Every single person and their mama is a builder,” says Willis Clayton-Stankowski, 25, who lives in Oakland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

One is younger, and has started calling Kaur mama.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025

Once, a mama deer with a spotted baby leaped across the road and disappeared in a thick cane brake.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

“We got about 125,000 people, mamas and babies in Massachusetts, that get food assistance,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren told the media in 2023 about a potential shutdown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

"I have a whole new understanding and respect for the mamas who have had to fight for their babies while pregnant," she wrote on Instagram.

From Reuters ● Nov. 4, 2023

He separated the first-time mamas into one pasture and kept an eye on them as they went into labor for up to 10 hours.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 11, 2023

Having a space and having more workshop events will create that solid foundation for our clients to really be confident as plant mamas and papas!

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2021

Except for Brunelle, the mamas loved to tease me.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer


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