avuncular
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We’re a long way from Norman Rockwell’s Saturday Evening Post portraits of doting parents taking their rosy-cheeked children to the avuncular family doctor for back-to-school checkups.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
At an appearance at the University of Mannheim in southwest Germany, Breuer, in his gray-jacketed dress uniform, sprang from his chair, transforming what had been an avuncular presence into one of studied intensity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
Walz is all avuncular, with his can-I-help-shovel-your-walk approachability and good cheer.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2024
After Ernst arranges the meeting with Disney, Marks pencils in a toothbrush mustache and transforms himself into a creepily avuncular version of the character, whose Midwestern niceness becomes menacing when his business interests are threatened.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2024
But my father knew—and I knew—that there was more than just avuncular love at stake for him in these visits.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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