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happy family

British  

noun

  1. another name for grey-crowned babbler

  2. another name for apostle bird

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Brooklyn, now 18, tells us about the day that shattered his happy family.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

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

Because it is true that a parent with its babies could make a happy family, and she should know that.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers