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nephew

[nef-yoo, nev-yoo] / ˈnɛf ju, ˈnɛv ju /






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IN 2013, Jane took on a new employee: her nephew.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 5, 2026

"Yesterday, we saw a video of a child struggling to free himself from the mud trapping him; he looked just like my nephew," one message read.

From Barron's Sep. 1, 2026

Parton died peacefully last week, her nephew Bryan Seaver announced in a news release shared with The Times.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 31, 2026

Her nephew, Dwaipayan Mukherjee, says the family had spoken to her over video calls while she was in Kathmandu.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

My sister, who is more than ten years my junior, was left to the guardianship of my mother’s nephew, Colonel Fitzwilliam, and myself.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

"We knew what kind of mum she would be because she doted on my two boys - her nephews," she said.

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

But the house where he lived with his siblings and nephews was reduced to pieces by the quake.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

Your siblings and nieces and nephews are not first in line, and that’s OK.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

Tyler had numerous godchildren, more than a dozen nieces and nephews and multiple great-nieces and great-nephews.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

They were coming home from church, a big group, my mom and Andrew and Isaac, her new husband and his children and a whole bunch of his extended family, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah




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