paternal
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A friend of mine once received paternal advice to retire his collection of personality socks until he had secured a job at a law firm.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Hanna and her three siblings went to stay with their paternal grandmother as their mother, Aster Yohannes, was away studying in the US.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
But an 1889 imperial house law stipulated that only men could become emperor, and only through the paternal line.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
And then there was the photograph that sat on his grandmother’s desk and eventually came to sit on his own, a professional portrait of his paternal grandfather.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
It was painful to know that our paternal grandmother lived less than a day’s drive away and we had not seen her more than twice in our lifetimes.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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