sister-in-law
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“Bruce served his community from behind the wheel,” Kathy Sanchez, Rodriguez’s sister-in-law said in a GoFundMe campaign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
His former sister-in-law told the BBC that she did not know where he was, and nobody had been able to see him.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
In her “wife school” series, Clark interviewed her new sister-in-law, Katie Voetberg, a prairie dress-clad podcast host and mother of six, about how to avoid being a “nagging wife” and a “constant dripping faucet.”
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
For instance, Mr. Nichols tells us early on that Hawthorne’s sister-in-law, Elizabeth Peabody, coined the word “transcendentalism.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
She was as uninterested in it as she was in her trousseau, and she left all decisions in the hands of her fiance and her future sister-in-law.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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She exchanged postcards with former sisters-in-law and her first husband’s second wife.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2025
Still, she and her husband and brothers- and sisters-in-law believed that God had a plan for them, even now, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2023
I saw my wife and one of my sisters-in-law being swept away, followed by my elder brother.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2023
Moreno's wife, one of their daughters, two of his brothers and two sisters-in-law are also among those allegedly connected to the case, Salazar said.
From Reuters ● Feb. 22, 2023
Patti starts pointing out faces and naming my father's cousins and their sisters and sisters-in-law and brothers and brothers-in-law.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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