widow

I’m a 72-year-old widow living in a small town in Nevada with limited access to attorneys.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

His widow joined a weaving collective of genocide survivors, working long hours on a back-strap loom to weave the beautiful, intricate geometric designs that Ixil women are famous for.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026

His widow will attend the game with their children.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

In India, emphasizing someone’s status as a widow in a negative way is considered insulting since widows have traditionally been ostracized and seen as carrying bad luck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Positive that her new husband wouldn’t last long, she expected to leave her past as an abandoned wife behind and become the respectable widow, Mrs. Calvin Brown, within days.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

In India, emphasizing someone’s status as a widow in a negative way is considered insulting since widows have traditionally been ostracized and seen as carrying bad luck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Only a small number of exemptions would apply, including the war widows pension and Armed Forces compensation.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Life can get complicated, and widows and widowers can find love again.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

Yet many of these widows, daughters, and other female successors were also savvy political operators, leaving behind genuine legislative legacies or winning office in their own right.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

I would fight for widows and orphans, Christ and His church.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

Like the Brontës, the Draydens are the eccentric daughters of a widowed curate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Mercury, a large Los Angeles-based insurer, charged the highest differential, though it offered lower rates to widowed motorists with 34 or more years of driving experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

In England and Wales, campaign groups hope the proposals could make life easier for those who are widowed or trapped in abusive relationships.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

Social Security-benefit rules favor married individuals and are a disadvantage for divorced, prematurely widowed and lifelong single older adults, according to a study in The Gerontologist, an academic journal focused on aging.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

Nobody seemed to register that he was from Hawaii, that he’d been visiting his widowed grandmother, or that his daughter had fallen ill.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

In 2015 she became a symbol of heartbreaking grief when Goldberg died while working out on vacation, widowing her with two children as she continued to help run one of the world’s best-known companies.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2022

Compared with other singletons, people who were single as a result of divorce or widowing had a three times and six times greater risk, respectively.

From Time Magazine Archive

He kept continually in his hand a polished, oval, white carnelian, the gift of his widowing love, and at times it seemed his only consolation, the only thing left him in this world clearly tangible.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 by Various

The days that followed the widowing rites passed strangely for Dorama.

From The Outcaste by F. E. Penny

Sooba was gratified by the performance of the widowing ceremonies; he felt to a certain degree revenged upon his unfortunate nephew.

From The Outcaste by F. E. Penny