stepson
Americannoun
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stepsons
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of stepson
before 900; Middle English stepsone, Old English stēopsunu. See step-, son
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When John W. Rogers Jr., the stepson of Johnson’s early lawyer, created Ariel Investments, the first Black-owned mutual-fund company in the U.S.,
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Daniel Powers, Cancro’s brother-in-law, got around $30 million at that time, while Phillip Sivolobov, Cancro’s stepson, received total compensation of approximately $50 million.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
President Miguel Diaz-Canel, his wife and stepson were also hit by the latest flurry of US sanctions, as was the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and several other entities.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
The imitation restaurants are a form of flattery, Bob Auerbach, the founder’s stepson, previously told The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
He was the eldest stepson of Victor Rosellini, a wealthy Seattle restaurateur, and cousin of Albert Rosellini, the immensely popular governor of Washington State from 1957 to 1965.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
“It is intrinsically a part of who I am and I am a better mom to my stepsons and a better partner to my fiance because I get to do what I love.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025
She also has four grown-up stepsons aged 30, 28, 26 and 23.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2024
A woman who the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported lost four children, two stepsons and her younger brother in the crash quickly raised $300,000 with a GoFundMe account before she shut the fund down.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
A man was hiking in Big Bend with his two stepsons in the late afternoon on Friday, park officials said in a statement, when the younger stepson, who was 14, lost consciousness.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2023
One of the reasons given by Snawley to Squeers to induce him to take his stepsons at a lower rate was that “they were not great eaters.”
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
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