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mother-in-law
vs
stepmam
mother-in-law
noun
The mother of one's spouse.
A mother-in-law sandwich.
A mother-in-law apartment.
stepmam
noun
Stepmother.
How often have the words
mother-in-law
and
stepmam
occurred in a corpus of books?
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Google Ngram Viewer
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