ma
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"Good afternoon ma, I have not seen the hospital items"
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2025
“I wonder what we did to you that makes you go there so often,” my ma said a few years back on the phone while I sat in the lobby of Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025
The 68-year-old ma capsized his sailboat in the marina basin and was attempting to swim to shore with his boat when witnesses saw him go under the water, officials said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
“Tunes hiv been whirlin aroon in the air an in ma heid an hairt since I wis a bairn, an I wis composing tunes an songs even then,” she wrote in her book.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2022
“Lots of things aren’t fair,” Connor said, and I wondered if he was thinking about his ma, or maybe about my family.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
The original term for devil mas is "Jab Molassie," which is French patois for "Molasses Devil".
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2024
It was the first meal I remember enjoying in more than a year, and I wanted to memorialize the feeling with a tattoo of the Korean character for “savor,” mas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
I’m trying to ask writers: What does living mas mean?
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2023
She’s still la mas chingona — the ultimate badass — emcee Enrique Cerna said as he welcomed her to the stage in October.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
Those days, the world feels as gray and cold as it really is and it's hard not to believe the new girl isn't mas mejor than me.
From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson
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