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  • noun Plural form of great-nephew.

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Examples

  • Come to think of it, one of my great-nephews is named Thor.

    Regretsy – Little Bitty Zazzle update 2010

  • My great-nephews would certainly have preferred to eat an ahuilote berry than to take hormones during their acne-prone years.

    Winemaking in the Mexican sierra 2008

  • Since 2005, Johnson, who represents a Dallas-area district, awarded about a third of scholarships she had available through the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to two grandsons and two great-nephews and to the son and daughter of her top aide in Dallas.

    Eddie Bernice Johnson Repays Foundation Scholarship Money She Steered To Family, Friends 2010

  • According to the Dallas Morning News, which broke the story, between 2005 and 2009, Johnson awarded scholarships totaling $25,000 to two of her grandchildren, two of her great-nephews and the two children of a top aide.

    Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson's dumb scholarship awards 2010

  • And so when my kids and my grandkids, my nephews and my great-nephews come to me and ask me who was my great-grandfather, I'll be able to tell them: This is the story of Willie McGee.

    My Grandfather's Execution 2010

  • I have two great-nephews (ages 9 and 13) who read everything they can get their hands on.

    No Comment Department Bill Crider 2007

  • In the end, Sid Richardson's quartet of great-nephews, the Bass brothers of Fort Worth, emerged with the strongest legacy.

    Piles of Green From Black Gold 2009

  • So I tuned in to Mom's television, as sticky great-nieces and great-nephews clambered over me.

    Stan Goff: Air Travel Under Orange Alert 2008

  • Now, in Antioch, he had neither man to reassure him; just Dellius and a group of more junior men, grandsons and great-nephews of famous men long dead.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Now, in Antioch, he had neither man to reassure him; just Dellius and a group of more junior men, grandsons and great-nephews of famous men long dead.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

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