stepfather

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Recent Examples of stepfather The infant was in bed between her 26-year-old mother and her stepfather in the family’s apartment in NYCHA’s Queensbridge North Houses when the couple woke up about 6:30 a.m. and saw the puppy biting the baby’s face, cops were told. Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 27 May 2025 Rip had murdered his stepfather to protect his mother, who succumbed to the abuse by her husband. Christina Dugan Ramirez , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 25 May 2025 Her stepfather Peter Schuman, 57, of Buena Park, has also been charged with two felonies related to insurance fraud and helping commit a crime. CBS News, 22 May 2025 Federal officials allege that Dickson communicated on Kik Messenger with an FBI Online Covert Employee in September 2023 who was posing as the stepfather of a 14-year-old girl in Connecticut. Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 8 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for stepfather
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stepfather
Noun
  • The report’s release occurred shortly after a case came to light of a Waterbury man who escaped his home after allegedly being held captive by his stepmother for two decades.
    Emilia Otte, Hartford Courant, 6 June 2025
  • Matson's father and stepmother aren't planning on attending the ceremony.
    David Oliver, USA Today, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • First of all, my dad was a big baseball fan and grew up watching the Yankees.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 6 June 2025
  • Austin shot his dad to protect Georgia and witnessed his mom suffocate Tom.
    Erin Jensen, USA Today, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Her friend Evelyn Ventura wore a corset her mom got her from Spain.
    Clara-Sophia Daly, Miami Herald, 1 June 2025
  • In 2016, my mom discovered the Travelon Bag Bungee on Amazon and hasn't traveled without it.
    Bria McNeal, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2025
Noun
  • This way, parents, stepparents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and older siblings can all contribute directly to whoever may need the planning.
    Cicely Jones, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • Tucci previously opened up about Blunt initially taking on the role of a stepparent to his three oldest children during an August 2017 interview with The Guardian.
    Kayla Grant, People.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Penske Media, the parent company of The Hollywood Reporter, is the majority stakeholder of SXSW.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2025
  • Before Milk served as a supervisor in San Francisco, the politician followed in the footsteps of his parents and served in the Navy.
    Andy Rose, CNN Money, 4 June 2025

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“Stepfather.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stepfather. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.

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