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- noun Plural form of
great-great-grandmother .
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Examples
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He wound up having a two-night stand with one of my great-great-grandmothers.
As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010
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My maternal and paternal great-great-grandmothers both divorced their husbands, and later went on to marry different kinds of sex perverts; my grandfather left my grandmother for his secretary and her family; my parents got divorced, and their second marriages and/or common-law relationships fell apart; a whole bunch of aunts, uncles, and cousins all split up—which leaves us with a portrait of a shattered family and some very robust hybridized genes.
i know i am, but what are you? SAMANTHA BEE 2010
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He wound up having a two-night stand with one of my great-great-grandmothers.
As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010
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My maternal and paternal great-great-grandmothers both divorced their husbands, and later went on to marry different kinds of sex perverts; my grandfather left my grandmother for his secretary and her family; my parents got divorced, and their second marriages and/or common-law relationships fell apart; a whole bunch of aunts, uncles, and cousins all split up—which leaves us with a portrait of a shattered family and some very robust hybridized genes.
i know i am, but what are you? SAMANTHA BEE 2010
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I even put one of my great-great-grandmothers into the book, who went blind as a result of an outbreak of Spanish Flu in Eastern Idaho.
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I even put one of my great-great-grandmothers into the book, who went blind as a result of an outbreak of Spanish Flu in Eastern Idaho.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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My great-great-grandmothers had, on average, ten children each, who then had ten children each—you see my problem.
Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
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As women talk today they share the stories of mothers, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, and great-great-grandmothers, who fought for their freedom and died knowing they had failed.
The State of the Union, Precarious: Victory within our grasp 2007
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In what was an almost everyday occurrence at the time, my great-great-grandmothers on both sides gave birth to children fathered by white slave masters.
Tech and Science 2005
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Then, way back there, I found out in my history that in my ancestors, one of my great-great-grandmothers read law with her husband, who read law.
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