widow

Tom Strada's widow Terry, the national chair of 9/11 Families United, said in her remarks.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

A 78-year-old British widow has told the BBC she is struggling to eat or sleep as the Swedish government threatens to deport her over a late post-Brexit residence application.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

But looking back, Kirk’s transformation from grieving widow to unsuccessful CEO feels preordained.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

“There is no bigger industry here,” said Nemahunguni, a 37-year-old widow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

The widow leaned back in her rocking chair.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

In India, emphasizing someone’s status as a widow in a negative way is considered insulting since widows have traditionally been ostracized and seen as carrying bad luck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Only a small number of exemptions would apply, including the war widows pension and Armed Forces compensation.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Yet many of these widows, daughters, and other female successors were also savvy political operators, leaving behind genuine legislative legacies or winning office in their own right.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

The inspector-general’s office reckoned that thousands of widows and widowers may also have missed out on more than $100 million in benefits through claiming errors that they should have been advised against.

From MarketWatch ● May 1, 2026

We are the only boarders on the fourth floor under the age of eighty; our other neighbors are all widows and pensioners.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Katja, a widowed cleaning lady, lives with her 26-year-old daughter, Ines, and her slightly younger son, Mario.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

Single, divorced and widowed drivers got quotes in April 2025 that were up to $108 higher for six months of premiums from four out of five California carriers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

After her widowed mother saw a financial adviser, Sarah decided to seek advice.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

I know a recently widowed 85-year-old who liked living in a gated community in South Florida for residents 55 and up.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026

“And it’s got to stop right now, see? You’re widowed from the first one and you’re going to get a divorce from the second, and then you’re going to marry me again, see?”

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

In 2015 she became a symbol of heartbreaking grief when Goldberg died while working out on vacation, widowing her with two children as she continued to help run one of the world’s best-known companies.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2022

Compared with other singletons, people who were single as a result of divorce or widowing had a three times and six times greater risk, respectively.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sooba was gratified by the performance of the widowing ceremonies; he felt to a certain degree revenged upon his unfortunate nephew.

From The Outcaste by F. E. Penny

The days that followed the widowing rites passed strangely for Dorama.

From The Outcaste by F. E. Penny

And now he learnt that not only had she thwarted his schemes against Monmouth, but had deprived him of the ardently sought felicity of widowing her.

From Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini