sister-in-law
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For instance, Mr. Nichols tells us early on that Hawthorne’s sister-in-law, Elizabeth Peabody, coined the word “transcendentalism.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
I’ve become really close with my sister-in-law, and almost every Sunday, we meet for what we call “tea time.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Has your sister-in-law, for better or for worse, saved you an awful lot of time and work that goes into being an executor?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
When they caught wind of the mysterious suitor, Danielle’s mom, sister and sister-in-law each found his LinkedIn page.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
His reaction to this scene was so strong that it made the rounds of the family gossip: Emma Wedgwood, Hensleigh’s sister, wrote to her sister-in-law with amusement how struck Charles was by Hensleigh’s juggling.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
She exchanged postcards with former sisters-in-law and her first husband’s second wife.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2025
Soboroff had a sobering message for one of two sisters-in-law who were also at the house: “I think we gotta go.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2025
I saw my wife and one of my sisters-in-law being swept away, followed by my elder brother.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2023
Stuck, uncomfortably, in the middle, is Sasha, the middle-class New England girl who has married their brother, Cord, and, despite all signs to the contrary, is referred to as “the Gold Digger” by her sisters-in-law.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
Patti starts pointing out faces and naming my father's cousins and their sisters and sisters-in-law and brothers and brothers-in-law.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
