grandmother
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My maternal grandmother, Marcela Miranda, was born in Arizona’s copper country in 1914 and lived in the United States until she was about 7.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Take, for example, a plate of longsilog, the traditional breakfast meal her Filipina grandmother used to make for her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
The novel then shifts to recount the “contrapuntal fate” of Adelaide Percheron, an orphan raised by her grandmother in Pondicherry, a French settlement in India.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Back in Macon, one of Hollis's colleagues out canvassing voters to make sure they make it to the polls is Octavia Brooks, a working-class grandmother.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Then the goslings waddled over and started inspecting their robotic grandmother.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
Salterelli has seen cases where competing grandmothers both want to be guardians and a custody battle ensues.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Longevity prospered because these fit, caring and longer-lived grandmothers passed along their genes to more grandchildren.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Add to that the centuries-old cliches of Italian mothers and grandmothers showing their love through food, and it's a perfect storm.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Pregnant Then Screwed surveyed, external more than 1,300 parents and found 80% of those using informal childcare relied on grandmothers.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
On the platform are men in work caps, women in worn cotton dresses, weary grandmothers embracing grandchildren who were babies before the war.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
