widow

If no one is listed, funds will be paid out to the widow.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

His widow Rose took his place, at first temporarily.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

Sharon Osbourne, the widow of heavy metal pioneer Ozzy, has used the first anniversary of his death to tell fans to remember him by playing music "really loud".

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Malcolm-Jamal Warner‘s widow and his mother are on opposing sides of a legal battle over $1.2 million, a year after “The Cosby Show” star died suddenly at age 54.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

Father Cham had told her, “May that bird always provide for you,” Thirty years later, the widow claimed the chicken still laid an egg every day.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

Ambrositsch, for example, is proud that her heuriger brings together "19-year-old hipsters and 91-year-old widows" at the same table.

From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 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

GKN Aerospace’s Garden Grove facility, which sits on 15.5 acres on Western Avenue, designs, analyzes, tests and certifies military canopies, cockpit windows and passenger widows, according to its website.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026

The inspector-general’s office reckoned that thousands of widows and widowers may also have missed out on more than $100 million in benefits through claiming errors that they should have been advised against.

From MarketWatch ● May 1, 2026

Now that we were no longer stringing beads, I entertained Tanu after supper by reading Tagore’s poems aloud, although the older widows said I would have done better to read the sacred verses.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

Vietnam veteran Millard Elston, twice widowed, created the phone and the homemade bench where it sits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 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

She famously played snobbish suburban neighbour Margo Leadbetter in The Good Life, as well as the widowed aristocrat Audrey fforbes-Hamilton in To the Manor Born.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

See: I’m 65, widowed and collecting Social Security survivor benefits.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026

A successful Florentine silk merchant and trader, Francesco was recently widowed and has a young son.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

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

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 Penny, F. E.

And now he learnt that not only had she thwarted his schemes against Monmouth, but had deprived him of the ardently sought felicity of widowing her.

From Mistress Wilding by Sabatini, Rafael

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