grandmother
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Collins shopped with his grandmother Kathy Red Elk for a suit Walters could wear to court.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
A 65-year-old grandmother has become a three-time world champion powerlifter after only starting the sport two and a half years ago.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Musk’s paternal grandmother came from Liverpool, in northern England, and he has cited his ancestry as central to his interest in the U.K.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Followers trust her to steward beloved images, and when I got up the courage to submit a picture, I sent a black-and-white studio portrait of my green-eyed grandmother Esperanza, a Mexican immigrant from Guadalajara, Jalisco.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
“Yet your spirit holds more power than you know. Power great enough to manipulate the Earth around you. And you know why—you saw her in your dream tonight, didn’t you? The one your grandmother served?”
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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Salterelli has seen cases where competing grandmothers both want to be guardians and a custody battle ensues.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
What began as a chance encounter on a flight to Las Vegas could soon be heading to the big screen, as a group of grandmothers and a pro-wrestler discuss a film based on their story.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Davids — who grew up in South Africa, where culturally it’s common for grandmothers to administer enemas to children in rural areas — does a coffee enema twice per month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
He says his group has 8,000 men like him, men who are grateful for the sports opportunities their daughters have that their mothers and grandmothers didn’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
We arrived at Kabati, my grandmothers village, around two in the afternoon.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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