grandparents

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And so, all of my grandparents and aunts and uncles, ancestors were all farmers.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

A Jewish woman whose grandparents were Holocaust survivors, and grew up at Bondi, told the inquiry she was "shocked to see flags being burnt at the Opera House -- it was such an un-Australian thing".

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

Though two of her grandparents died in Haiti in the last month, she couldn’t justify traveling to the island nation to attend their funerals out of concern for her and her family’s safety.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2026

It stands in contrast to the 1993 film adaptation that starred Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons as the characters loosely based on Allende’s grandparents.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

Though we lived in Bluefield, a couple of weekends each month we would all pile into the car and go to see either the Coleman or the Goble grandparents.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson