ma
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"Good afternoon ma, I have not seen the hospital items"
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2025
“I wonder what we did to you that makes you go there so often,” my ma said a few years back on the phone while I sat in the lobby of Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025
“Tunes hiv been whirlin aroon in the air an in ma heid an hairt since I wis a bairn, an I wis composing tunes an songs even then,” she wrote in her book.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2022
“Think Marination ma kai with a 98118 twist …” they say on Facebook.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
Seemed I could never use that word without thinking of my old home, my ma, my pa, my brother, our animals.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
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“She the home girl thas what I meant , have mas love for her” Echeverria wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
"The mas has been slowly but surely dying, it's sad to see," Curdell says.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2024
I’m trying to ask writers: What does living mas mean?
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2023
She’s still la mas chingona — the ultimate badass — emcee Enrique Cerna said as he welcomed her to the stage in October.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
“Caring for her own, best as she can. Like all us mas and pas.”
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
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