great-grandparents
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Third-degree relatives, such as cousins or great-grandparents and great-grandchildren, share one eighth.
From Science Daily • Feb. 19, 2026
"I wanted to remind people of the narrative of our grandmothers, grandfathers and great-grandparents, who throughout my childhood said that war is terrifying," the 28-year-old, who goes by the nickname Noi, told AFP.
From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026
“You can’t expect children of a sixth-generation family worth $200 million to go through the kind of cold and hunger and scarcity that their parents or grandparents or great-grandparents went through,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 19, 2025
Three sets of her great-grandparents moved to the US in the mid-19th Century and she is part of Baltimore’s historic Irish community.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2025
There are black-and-white pictures of my great-grandparents in several rooms of the house.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
