happy family
Britishnoun
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another name for grey-crowned babbler
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another name for apostle bird
Example Sentences
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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
"We never looked at people's colour, we never looked at people's race, we were one big happy family," recalled Pauline, 81.
From BBC • May 24, 2025
He looked back at the photograph of the apparently happy family.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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