nephew
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As a result, Roy E. Disney — Walt Disney’s nephew and a former Disney board member—launched the dramatic “Save Disney” shareholder campaign which led to Michael Eisner’s ouster as Disney’s CEO.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The order of service also included tributes paid by the Rev Roger Widdecombe, Widdecombe's nephew, and Sir Christian Sweeting, a close friend.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The first would be to buy a bigger headstone for his family gravesite, where his parents, four siblings and a nephew are buried in a single plot in the Green Street Cemetery.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
An uncle and his nephew had a harrowing experience Monday afternoon when the engine on their two-seat plane died, forcing them to make an emergency landing on Huntington State Beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
A young man—some accounts say that it was Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s nephew, while others report that it was a young professor from Yale College—was lifted and then pulled himself up and through the opening.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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But the house where he lived with his siblings and nephews was reduced to pieces by the quake.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Among them were Kerr's grandparents and nephews, his first ever coach, and his training partners from when he was 11 or 12.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 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
When the nieces and nephews began clamoring for the little flags on the pickup, he snapped at them.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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It's All in the Family
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Unit 20, Lessons 1–2
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