uncle
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Vesuvius erupted, burying Pompeii and killing his uncle, Pliny the Elder.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Silvana Armani, who worked alongside her uncle for four decades, was greeted with prolonged applause.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Born in 1991, Peña was born years after the Smiths broke up, but was introduced to the group’s catalog at age 5, while his uncle drove him around in a lowrider.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
His mother, uncle and grandmother are barely getting by.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
“Go on, then,” his uncle said, pointing to the door.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Khan followed the same path, learning magic from his father and uncles and performing from the age of 12.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
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
“You don’t have mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts and uncles ... we needed help,” said Rudy, who moved to L.A. from New York.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
It did not make sense to me that only children had aunts, uncles, and cousins.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
So the story goes that the uncles had whispered with a clerk in the village and given him gold.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
