grandmother

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“Now I do it every time, too. I just smile at the TV and wave,” says 28-year-old Lonny Starsky, who picked up the habit from his grandmother, Judy Robinson.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

In each of those shows, Pfeiffer gives new meaning to a figure that historically has been a narrowly defined, often to the point of caricature, member of the supporting cast: The grandmother.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026

As the clean-up began, Iryna and Serhiy were staying with her grandmother, about 300km away in the Poltava region, east of Kyiv.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

Trump asked reporters after receiving the delivery from Simmons, whom the company described as a grandmother of ten from Arkansas.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

My grandmother disappears, and Althea Sharpe takes her place.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas