granny
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Her look evolves from a worn-out cog to a biker-like granny who’d seem natural riding on the back of Dennis Hopper’s hog.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
"The Gruffalo said to his daughter one day, Your Gruffalo granny is coming to stay."
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
The importance of inter-generational connection seems to be paying off, as five-year-old Evan said he was drawing hearts on his paper cracker "for my granny who dropped me off and I love her".
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
Her boss knows she travels a lot, often as the granny on call.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
“Someone else put her back together, a man from the audience who knew some magic, and then the two of them ran away together and my granny was left entirely alone.”
From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo
"Being around children keeps you young. Happy kids, happy mums, happy grannies!"
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
Squibb has played plenty of cackling grannies; even so, Ms. Sturak is her most unhinged.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
The Duchess of York was recently saying, "I can picture us being grannies together."
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2023
On occasion, the grannies do more than help out at bus stations.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
Moments later the grannies came streaming in with their Bibles, through the gate and up the driveway, a dozen or more at least.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
Even in the granniest of granny gears, it’s impossible for me to pedal smoothly up pitches with grades approaching, and sometimes exceeding, 13 percent.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022
