mama
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“Every single person and their mama is a builder,” says Willis Clayton-Stankowski, 25, who lives in Oakland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
Bystanders gathered, with one asking, “Would your mama be proud of you right now?”
From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2026
“They’re mama bears, and they’re coming out, and they’re going to run for office, and they’re going to become more vocal.”
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025
‘You’ve got to take care of mama bear and papa bear first.’
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 16, 2025
The only additional interaction they’ll have is for health checkups or, when the time comes, lugging the cub and his mama through tough mountain terrain to a new enclosure.
From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh
“We got about 125,000 people, mamas and babies in Massachusetts, that get food assistance,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren told the media in 2023 about a potential shutdown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
In the decades since, mothers — along with moms, mamas and mums — have been mentioned 295 times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
"I have a whole new understanding and respect for the mamas who have had to fight for their babies while pregnant," she wrote on Instagram.
From Reuters ● Nov. 4, 2023
“I trust mamas, I trust daddies, to deal with the health care of their children.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
You hear the news on the radios of people who got a reason to get up early and you hear mamas yelling for their kids who go to school to wake up.
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
