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happy family

British  

noun

  1. another name for grey-crowned babbler

  2. another name for apostle bird

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"I hated myself. I felt I'd ruined a perfectly happy family," Jacqui says.

From BBC Jan. 26, 2026

There is an oppressive notion that anyone not in a happy family has failed at life.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 10, 2025

I was flummoxed, in part because they read like a Mad Lib of happy family keywords, but also because the existence of “my baby” would have been news to me.

From Slate Jul. 16, 2025

“The point of all this is we can all be together more, and we could be that happy family that we were trying to be when we first moved to America,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2025

And that was how he found the Indian girl who brought him to her people and they became one rich, happy family and moved west together.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia

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