mother-in-law
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Her husband Samarth Singh, a lawyer, and mother-in-law Giribala Singh, a retired judge, have denied the allegations against them.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
You’ve taken on a lot of responsibility for your mother-in-law, both legal and financial.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
He’d spent a night in a Maine hospital due to complications from a fall and then learned his mother-in-law had died.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Outside the complex where Joan Manuel Lucena's mother-in-law was missing, rescuers found no signs of life.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
This was not the eighteen-foot-deep cellar of her mother-in-law, but perhaps it would keep the rest of her food from Jello.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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They teased one another, complained about overbearing mothers-in-law and celebrated milestones, like a daughter’s quinceañera.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2025
No one today any longer wishes to hear jokes about nagging mothers-in-law, spendthrift wives or old jalopies, and the men and women who once told them to hardy plaudits are now forgotten.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Lila Charif, Bahar Tavakolian and Laya Kadjavi, whose mothers and mothers-in-law were also close to mine, drew much inspiration from her in their own cooking.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2024
There, a team led by medical anthropologist Adelaide Lusambili of Africa International University conducted interviews with dozens of pregnant women, new mothers, male partners, mothers-in-law, community health care workers, and community leaders in 2021.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 27, 2023
Daughters who had complained bitterly about the responsibilities of taking care of their aged mothers-in-law had altered when Sula locked Eva away, and they began cleaning those old women’s spittoons without a murmur.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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