mum
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"Even stay-at-home mothers, like my mum, who has never been interested in the stock market, are now interested."
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
That morning his mum dropped him at school, but once there he emailed teachers saying he was ill.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
With Bain's experience as a teacher and foster mum, she can see both sides.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
“By the time she was my age she had four kids, one was my mum, and now I get to do this.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
“Your mum told me about Simon,” I say.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
Along with the buzz on Twitter, Instagram mummed with the news of Herbert’s new deal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
Historically, mumming saw groups dress up in masks and costume, going from house to house to perform poetry, theatre, music and dance.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
The local theatre and performance group have been committed to carrying the rural custom of "mumming" or "rhyming" into the 21st century, and in doing so caught the attention of McQueen's creative director, Seán McGirr.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
As Farmer's Almanac notes, there was also a custom to literally put on a little show at a strangers doorstep, which was called "mumming."
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2022
Miss De Putti's mumming, more enthusiastic than impressive, runs to posturing, comic mispronunciations, acrobatics.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is scarcely to be considered that the compound figures were influenced by the prevalence of mumming in the periods of the various carvings.
From The Grotesque in Church Art by Wildridge, T. Tindall
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