eldest

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In it, eldest brother Roman leaves his high-end financial management business in Atlanta to return home after his father is badly injured in an accident.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

Related: My former mother-in-law took out a life-insurance policy on my eldest child.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

Her eldest daughter Ava has her own tablet, but Abigail has tried to focus on discovering her interests away from tech instead - with painting, for example.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

The eldest, Nancy, would send up the family and their friends in works of comic fiction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

The two eldest Glass boys, Seymour and Buddy, had moved into it in 1929, at the respective ages of twelve and ten, and had vacated it when they were twenty-three and twenty-one.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger