stepsister
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The union gave me a stepbrother and a stepsister.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Introducing someone as a stepsister evokes a host of unspoken disclaimers: Not my real sister!
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
You will have to watch your stepsister like a hawk.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 13, 2026
Hahn: It’s interesting, Mark, because I’ve always felt kind of like basically just invited to the party, so I always have felt like the messy stepsister on the outside looking in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
Ash stood up when the fire was lit and turned to face her stepsister.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
After decades of feeling like the forgotten stepsisters of marketers, some CCOs are even moving up and into bigger roles that companies have long filled with finance and operations executives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Despite the family's efforts to protect them, her younger stepsisters found out that their father and mother were trapped under the rubble from other children at school.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2025
For a time, the two guitarists were family: He married one of Hendrix’s stepsisters, Marsha Jinka, in 1962, although they had separated by the time Hendrix died in 1970 at 27.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2022
Wearing a raggedy dress and frumpy sweater, she is treated like a lowly servant by her imperious stepmother and snide stepsisters.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2021
It wasn’t just Auntie An-mei’s little brother, but also his wife’s stepbrothers and stepsisters, and a distant cousin, and that cousin’s husband and that husband’s uncle.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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