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
I could relate to those feelings of shame and despair she felt when she realized she was the stepsister.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025
Clara broke into a smile, and on impulse Ash went to her stepsister and embraced her.
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
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
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