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- noun The mother of someone’s
great-grandparent .
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Examples
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I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.
James Altucher: Unsubscribe James Altucher 2011
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I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.
James Altucher: Unsubscribe James Altucher 2011
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Frankly, before I saw this series, I only appreciated on an abstract level Ibsen's Nora, or Strindberg's Miss Julie, and the real life efforts of Marie Curie and or even my own great-great-grandmother.
Electric Liberation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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More than a century ago, your great-great-grandmother, Mina, helped track him down to his lair in Castle Alucard, in the Carpathian Mountains.
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Her ballet is based on George MacDonald's beautifully told 1872 tale about Irene, a steadfast princess who encounters the ghost of her loving great-great-grandmother also named Irene and, accompanied by her rustic friend Curdie, gets entangled with a population of fearsome goblins.
The Kids Are All Right Robert Greskovic 2012
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At the Emily Post Institute in Burlington, Vt., where heirs to etiquette guru Emily Post still dole out advice on good manners, Anna Post, 32, says adding a charitable element to a wedding is "terrific," and that her legendary great-great-grandmother wouldn't have minded a cow as a wedding gift.
For Brides and Grooms Who Have Everything, Something to Ease the Conscience Lucette Lagnado 2012
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Williams is an urban farmer in Los Angeles; he grows and sells heirloom tomatoes from seeds passed down from his great-great-grandmother, who carried them to America on a slave ship.
Avital Binshtock: Quirky, Perhaps, But Easy to Grow (and Fun to Eat) Avital Binshtock 2011
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Williams is an urban farmer in Los Angeles; he grows and sells heirloom tomatoes from seeds passed down from his great-great-grandmother, who carried them to America on a slave ship.
Avital Binshtock: Quirky, Perhaps, But Easy to Grow (and Fun to Eat) Avital Binshtock 2011
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My ancestors never owned slaves; they arrived in this country (except for my Cherokee great-great-grandmother) during the 1890s.
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She leaves later this month for a year in Indonesia, her great-great-grandmother's birthplace, on a Fulbright Scholarship to study sindhenan , the traditional singing of Javanese gamelan music.
A Singer's Arrival, in Her Own Words Larry Blumenfeld 2011
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