stepsister
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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
What I found in this fairy tale is that the stepsister is the most relatable character and has been for thousands of years.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 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
That’s when Sam explained that they were actually stepsister and stepbrother since Patrick’s dad married Sam’s mom.
From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky
They were stepsisters who hadn’t seen each other since they were little girls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 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
She also defends his humanity to Louis’s nasty daughters, who make the evil stepsisters in Disney’s “Cinderella” seem understated.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
Sure, she got the prince, but what about the stepsisters?
From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm
