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Recent Examples of grandfather Her grandmother taught tea ceremonies, and her grandfather taught calligraphy. Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2025 But in November, the German broadsheet Welt reported that her grandfather Hans Weidel was made chief judge of the brutal Warsaw military court in 1944 in a document signed personally by Adolf Hitler. Carlo Angerer, NBC News, 9 Mar. 2025 Journalism is part of my heritage: My great great grandfather was a Civil War correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025 Not only with the union, but with many beyond the company’s workers – including its retirees and a much larger number of voters spread across the industrial Midwest who remember the company’s former might, when their fathers, grandfathers or even great-grandfathers worked there. Chris Isidore, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for grandfather

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“Grandfather.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandfather. Accessed 17 Mar. 2025.

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