stepsister
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I have a question whose answer you may not like: In order for your stepsister to change your mother’s address for her bank account, she would legally and ethically require your mother’s permission.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 13, 2026
I didn’t choose “Cinderella,” or the stepsister, the story of “Cinderella” through the stepsister chose me.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025
And all the dreamier if they put that team in her town — and not that stepsister city across the river.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025
Baena's surviving family includes his mother Barbara Stern and stepfather Roger Stern; father Scott and stepmother Michele Baena; brother Brad Baena; stepsister Bianca Gabay and stepbrother Jed Fluxman.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2025
Mommy once took me to Harlem to visit my stepsister, Jacqueline, whom we called Jack and who was my father’s daughter by a previous marriage and more like an aunt than a sister.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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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
But “Grounded” would have been better left without its imposed topic, which inadvertently casts much work as ugly stepsisters unsuccessfully trying to jam their feet into Cinderella’s glass slipper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
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
The beneficiaries are now Keough and her two younger stepsisters.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
“They are going to be your stepsisters, your hermanitas, and we're all going to live here together, so please, try to be nice.”
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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