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Recent Examples of widow
His widow, Helen, and daughters, Allyson and Kaylee, will be in the audience for Trump's address.
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Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
Uncle Fred’s alarmingly young widow takes shelter in a room upstairs, only for the deceased’s ultra-militant sister to demand everyone to deny any charity to a woman who failed to keep Fred alive and in good health.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 4 Mar. 2025
Read: The Trump world order There was some substance behind the grieving widow’s spin.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2025
The Pitt is officially coming back for a second season Max declared on Valentines’ Day, and the legal fray between Michael Crichton’s widow and Warner Bros Discovery over the Noah Wylie starrer is officially going forward, an LA judge declared Monday.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 25 Feb. 2025
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Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
Uncle Fred’s alarmingly young widow takes shelter in a room upstairs, only for the deceased’s ultra-militant sister to demand everyone to deny any charity to a woman who failed to keep Fred alive and in good health.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 4 Mar. 2025
Read: The Trump world order There was some substance behind the grieving widow’s spin.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2025
The Pitt is officially coming back for a second season Max declared on Valentines’ Day, and the legal fray between Michael Crichton’s widow and Warner Bros Discovery over the Noah Wylie starrer is officially going forward, an LA judge declared Monday.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for widow
Noun
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Rosie Ryan Hardy arrived on March 7, 2025 at nine pounds, two ounces, the country singer and his wife announced on social media, two days after Caleigh gave birth.—
Ashley Iasimone,
Billboard,
9 Mar. 2025
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Hackman, in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's, apparently was unaware that his wife was dead.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
9 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The Browns took Paddington home to live with them at 32 Windsor Gardens in London, along with their two children, Jonathan and Judy, and their housekeeper, Mrs. Bird, the bio says.—
Jonathan Limehouse,
USA TODAY,
3 Mar. 2025
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The movie was being filmed right as the war was ramping up, and as the United States became less neutral, Mrs. Miniver was rewritten in a way that made the film better propaganda and, in fact, better cinema. 36.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Guy Pearce is an antagonistic delight wielding passive-aggressive hostility as the main character’s benefactor, and Felicity Jones, as the architect’s loyal wife, is the heart of the piece who steps up when her spouse can’t.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA TODAY,
1 Mar. 2025
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Twenty-six percent say their spouse follows a different religion than them.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Last summer, a local housekeeper inherited a few million dollars and some cats from her French madam, who shot herself on her Samui property.—
Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
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Throw in Morton, who has made amiable viciousness into a trademark of this phase of his career, and Catherine Tate as a Dutch brothel madam with a PhD, and Going Dutch has the sort of ensemble already in place for long-term laughs.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
2 Jan. 2025
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“Widow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/widow. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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