Recent Examples on the WebJason Holt showed Martin a photo of his great-uncle, PFC Thomas Coleman Hawkins (pictured right, with a friend).—David Martin, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2024 When his great-uncle dies, Norman inherits the responsibility of enacting an annual ritual to protect the town from a 300 year old witch's curse.—Danny Horn, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2023 Some, like Cohen’s great-uncle, had their number removed.—Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024 In Luling, Yeni, her parents, aunts, and grandmother settled into a cramped house with a tin roof that was down the street from her great-uncles, the first members of the family to discover the town’s decent jobs, in the oil fields.—Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024 Lyons is a third-generation family farmer, the heir to a farming dynasty that began when his great-uncle E. T. Mape came over from Ireland.—Jake Bittle, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024 One of Maram’s great-uncles, Fayez, is pushing a wheelchair carrying Maram’s ninety-year-old great-grandmother.—Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023 They were joined by Itay Raviv, whose great-uncle, 78-year-old Avraham Munder, remains a hostage; all three spoke at a dinner in Beverly Hills on Saturday with representatives of the American Jewish Committee and other supporters of Israel.—Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023 In 1948, Kip’s great-uncle Robert McKissick had made the front page of the Twin Falls Times-News for committing his own seemingly inexplicable act of violence.—Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
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