in-laws
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She shares a house with her in-laws, her husband and their young son.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
In fact, it was so important to her and her husband that grandparents were nearby that they gave her in-laws some money to help them buy a slightly more expensive house in Georgetown.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
“One of Us” is about your brother-in-law, which made me realize how few people write songs about their in-laws.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
You think your family group chat, the one that includes both your prickly parents and defensive in-laws, is tricky to navigate?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
In the spirit of their shipboard con game, they continued to spin out false histories for themselves, inventing brothers and sisters with plausible names, cousins with moral shortcomings, in-laws with facial tics.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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