paternal

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• Only by practice, unless of course you are like my paternal grandmother, Catherine, whom I never knew but who reportedly whipped out crusts so thin and fine you could see your hands through it.

• The findings suggested that paternal and maternal versions of the histone variants are mediating a conflict over how to allocate resources to the offspring during pregnancy.

• My husband read him a children’s book about an Auschwitz survivor, “The Number on My Grandfather’s Arm,” and used it as an entree to tell the story of Sophie, Simon’s paternal grandmother.

• The most familiar model of the nuclear family still includes paternal roles which are inherently patriarchal, and often misogynist.

• Her paternal grandmother, a federal worker, went to court days after Makenzie died, asking for and receiving custody of Anderson’s two other children, who are now 2 and 5 years old.

• Thus, like Michael Corleone, Abel is a man living with a paternal figure looming over his life.

• Barrett had chanced to place a paternal hand on her head as he passed the microphone to the student next to her.

• It has been helping connect paternal half-siblings with each other and their donors since 2000.

• The older brother, Henry McCollum, had come to embrace the real killer as a paternal figure.

• Eric Jr. now helped his sobbing mother over to the front pew and his equally grief-stricken paternal grandmother, Gwendolyn Carr.