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Plus, Wintour brought her back to Vogue ahead of the Biden administration to style her first-ever cover of the mother ship magazine, which featured Kamala Harris, then vice president-elect, and brought things full circle.
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Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
Now, with the Strait of Hormuz closed, large mother ships bringing shipments to Iraq can no longer get to the port.
—ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
After my grandmother passed, Italy no longer felt like the mother ship, and the younger generation’s Italian Americanness faded with assimilation.
—Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Feb. 2026
In the Apollo days, the lander and the mother ship were launched on the same rocket.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 Jan. 2026
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Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
Now, with the Strait of Hormuz closed, large mother ships bringing shipments to Iraq can no longer get to the port.
—ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
After my grandmother passed, Italy no longer felt like the mother ship, and the younger generation’s Italian Americanness faded with assimilation.
—Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Feb. 2026
In the Apollo days, the lander and the mother ship were launched on the same rocket.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 Jan. 2026
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“Mother ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mother%20ship. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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