nephew
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The mission is a personal one for McKinney, who grew up with a schizophrenic nephew whose slow decline he watched for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
"The parents of all these children must receive justice," tailor Muhammad Wahab, who lost his 11-year-old nephew Hammad in the accident, told AFP on Friday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
A major contributor to that dictionary was Edgeworth’s nephew Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, the economist who lives on in the Edgeworth box taught to economics students today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
The fight with her nephew shows why that matters.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
They didn’t even pause to pick up their baby nephew.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Mr. Eisenkot presents himself as equally as tough as the Prime Minister, and voters know he lost a son and two nephews fighting in the war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Eisenkot has garnered broad public sympathy after his son Gal and two nephews were killed fighting in Gaza.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Parton didn’t have children, and her husband died in 2025, but she had 11 siblings and multitudes of nieces and nephews.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
The two young admirals, many assert, enjoyed meteoric career rises thanks to family patronage: They are nephews of a former secretary of the navy, José Rafael Ojeda Durán.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Pearl Ann stood with a bevy of women bragging about their sons and nephews in the army and all a-twitter over the coming New Year’s festivities.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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It's All in the Family
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Unit 20, Lessons 1–2
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