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Recent Examples of widow
According to recent reports, American women over 60 currently control approximately $8 trillion in assets, and nearly $40 trillion is expected to transfer to widows in the coming decades.
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Sharon Olson, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
At the cozy hillside home of Martine, the baker’s widow, Jérémie settles in for a stay of undetermined length.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
Drue Moore’s widow, Kelly, and their two children are now suing Brooks and Robinson, claiming their unfounded accusations of him embezzling Winthrop funds led to Drue’s death by suicide.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Part of the settlement was that Hutchins' widow, Matthew Hutchins, would serve as an executive producer.
—Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2025
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Sharon Olson, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
At the cozy hillside home of Martine, the baker’s widow, Jérémie settles in for a stay of undetermined length.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
Drue Moore’s widow, Kelly, and their two children are now suing Brooks and Robinson, claiming their unfounded accusations of him embezzling Winthrop funds led to Drue’s death by suicide.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Part of the settlement was that Hutchins' widow, Matthew Hutchins, would serve as an executive producer.
—Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for widow
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One edit, of a picture of a man, a dog and his wife, has been viewed over 49 million times on X as of reporting, while another post which edited memes into a Ghibli style has also received nearly 50 million views.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
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Some individuals have felt the impact of the disruption in funding too. Jason Frey and his wife live in California and own a condo on Maui.—
Chris Arnold,
NPR,
2 Apr. 2025
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Rumor also has it that the elevator was not put in for Mr. and Mrs. Crespi, but for their steamer trunks.—
Ella Gonzales,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Mar. 2025
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Since then, she's become a consistent presence in film (Bad Moms, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) and TV (Transparent, Mrs. Fletcher).—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Jennifer lives in Baltimore with her spouse, physicist Sean M. Carroll, and their two cats, Ariel and Caliban.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 Apr. 2025
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Seeking a Solution in the West Dear Seeking: Because of the change in your spouse’s health status, your desire for privacy is understandable.—
Abigail Van Buren,
Boston Herald,
6 Apr. 2025
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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 15 Apr. 2025.
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