mum
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"My mum and dad used to bring me here every Saturday morning to do the shopping and I'd always beg to go on the roundabout," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
He greets me with a hug and says he is excited to speak to BBC News because his mum and 100-year-old grandfather will see it.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
When I attended pregnancy scans a decade ago, the best the sonographer could do to involve this blind expectant mum was to turn up the volume on the heartbeat.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
However, his mum Eimear Savage said her son was fascinated with the chess board and pieces the moment he first saw them.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
“Well, I’ll be straightforward, Lizzie. Working as a code clerk at the embassy and all, I’ve wondered if your mum might have been recruited into something. But Jakob, a spy? What a bunch of twaddle.”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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Along with the buzz on Twitter, Instagram mummed with the news of Herbert’s new deal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
From the ancient Irish practice of mumming to walking the red carpet, the Armagh Rhymers were central to a meeting of myth and couture for McQueen's Paris Fashion Week show.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
The local theatre and performance group have been committed to carrying the rural custom of "mumming" or "rhyming" into the 21st century, and in doing so caught the attention of McQueen's creative director, Seán McGirr.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
As Farmer's Almanac notes, there was also a custom to literally put on a little show at a strangers doorstep, which was called "mumming."
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2022
His accent is good, his mumming of characteristic meticulousness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It is scarcely to be considered that the compound figures were influenced by the prevalence of mumming in the periods of the various carvings.
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge