aunt
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That sounds unhinged if you have seen the viral Jimmy Kimmel video with his aunt screaming in a driverless car.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
My aunt had a stairlift installed for her steep staircase when severe arthritis made the stairs dangerous for her.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
"I filled out all the forms and phoned my aunt in Canada, because you needed a sponsor then, and never told my mother and father."
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Horror movies also came into her purview by way of her Mexican American family, in particular her aunt Maria.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Miss Genovese is here to mourn Louisa, and so is my aunt, though she didn’t know her at all.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
She was raised in a huge extended family — she has 32 aunts and uncles — and remembers a house that was almost constantly full.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
It did not make sense to me that only children had aunts, uncles, and cousins.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
We have rituals there—paying respects to aging aunts and uncles, attending the home church, visiting Steve’s mom and little sister in the cemetery, buying pie at the Amish store.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
There is no social contract requiring aunts and uncles to divide their estates equally among their nieces and nephews, but unequal inheritances can still pack an unintentional emotional punch.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
My aunts rarely mentioned her, and when they did, it was always with sadness or, in Hadel’s case, anger.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
