Example Sentences

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She is clever and surprisingly funny even when talking about serious things — from structural racism in immigration policy to the tios, tias and ancestors who have shaped her studies and her life.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2022

Tia’s Text Thread series is an ode to the tias and moms who choose to express themselves through animated GIFs.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2022

Those babbies and tias and friends most likely died after being isolated from friends and family in their final days.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2021

“The majority of people in those trainings were 60 plus, they were tias, they were abuelas,” Makam said.

From The Guardian • Oct. 18, 2018

There was her mother ever present, or if she must absent herself, there was a bevy of tias comadres surrounding her, until the Doña Anita dare not even raise her eyes to meet his.

From A Texas Matchmaker by Adams, Andy