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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a recent widow" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a woman who has lost her spouse not long ago.
Example: "After the loss of her husband, she found solace in the support group for a recent widow."
Alternatives: "a newly widowed woman" or "a woman who has recently lost her husband."
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She is a recent widow.
A subplot about a recent widow with money problems is sweet but tired.
Audrey Hepburn plays a recent widow who wonders what happened to all the money her husband stole.
While having a pedicure, she also starts talking to Laura Ms. Daviss), a recent widow with a daughter.
Teresa O'Donohue, my host, was a recent widow coping with suddenly having to take on her husband's funeral business.
Letter, tipped in, requesting that the Christ Church of Coming's rector provide proof of the marriage of a recent widow; also a newspaper obituary, n.d.
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The recent widow of a prominent Chicago banker, Anna Dollie Ledgerwood Matters, had brought a baby girl home from a visit to Canada and claimed that the child was her late husband's posthumous heir.
Here Mary Richards is the recent widow of a New York congressman.
A new lipstick and a shoulder to cry on for the recent widow.
However, I decided that since I am still mentally and emotionally fragile, I should go ahead as planned and join a grievance support group exclusively for recent widows and widowers, although not exclusively for AD spouses.
Quick run-down: recent widow hides her four children in her father's attic.
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