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Recent Examples of stepparent
When your parent remarries, the new spouse becomes your stepparent.
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Lillian Stone, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
Additionally, bonus moms may participate in simple household chores or even family decision making, depending on the family’s arrangement or understanding, but that is usually the role of a stepparent or guardian.
—wendy Wisner, Parents, 29 Oct. 2024
Both stepparents redid their wills, writing us out of them.
—R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2024
Both stepparents redid their will’s writing us out of them.
—R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 26 Oct. 2024
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Lillian Stone, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
Additionally, bonus moms may participate in simple household chores or even family decision making, depending on the family’s arrangement or understanding, but that is usually the role of a stepparent or guardian.
—wendy Wisner, Parents, 29 Oct. 2024
Both stepparents redid their wills, writing us out of them.
—R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2024
Both stepparents redid their will’s writing us out of them.
—R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 26 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stepparent
Noun
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My Little Puny sparkles in a double role as the prince and the fairy godmother, but Tabitha is a scene-stealing vamping diva as the evil stepmother.—
Barry Levitt,
Vulture,
21 Feb. 2025
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Hayek, who welcomed daughter Valentina with Pinault in 2007, immediately took to her new role as a stepmother.—
Kayla Grant,
People.com,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The death of the mother and stepfather of Scottish actor Callum Kerr in France could have been a murder-suicide, prosecutors say.—
Liam Quinn,
People.com,
12 Feb. 2025
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The stepfather’s attorney information was not listed.—
Kate Linderman,
Kansas City Star,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Her parents are model London King and comedian Rob Schneider, who divorced when the singer was still an infant.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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Many children are mirroring their parents’ feelings toward money.—
Kanika Talwar,
WWD,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The 69-year-old hails from an ethnically mixed family – his father is Azeri and his mother is Kurdish.—
Nadeen Ebrahim,
CNN,
6 July 2024
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And if your mother doesn't feel comfortable setting her own boundary, offer to be her excuse.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Washington Post,
6 July 2024
Noun
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The apple of snooty mom Victoria's (Parker Posey) eye, who works the family finance business with his dad Timothy (Jason Isaacs), party-loving pool cretin Saxon is this season's poster boy for misguided masculinity.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA TODAY,
19 Feb. 2025
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Fang Di has spent her entire professional career repaying family debts, those incurred by both her factory-operating mom (Peng Jing) and Tian Tian’s drug-addict dad (Zhou You) back in Chongqing, city of copycat fashion and first-class hotpot.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
18 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Critics say that if the Medicaid cuts are approved by the House and Senate, millions of Americans will lose coverage, including children, new moms, seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities.—
Nik Popli / Washington,
TIME,
25 Feb. 2025
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Expectant mom Fiona Ridgewell, 38, recently went viral on TikTok (@fionaridgewellcomedy), racking up almost 198,000 views.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Stepparent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stepparent. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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