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  • noun Plural form of great-uncle.

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Examples

  • Municipal Court Judge Javier Lozano, whose great-uncles were officers under Villa, knew Villa's widow, who was made an honorary citizen of Columbus.

    Pancho Villa, once a terrorist, now celebrated in New Mexico 2011

  • They revered a past which they had partially invented and had roundly embellished to suit their own fear of change, and Pop, who had seen the world go to hell during the war and who hoped for a better future, couldn't convince your great-uncles to value anything new and often sat nursing a drink, stroking his jaw, and glaring distractedly into space.

    I Never Was George L. Chieffet 2010

  • When I was a girl, I lived with my mother, but I spent a lot of time with my paternal grandparents and my great-aunts and great-uncles in our family's antiques store in Los Angeles Chinatown.

    Random House Reader's Circle chats with with Lisa See about Peony in Love 2010

  • Municipal Court Judge Javier Lozano, whose great-uncles were officers under Villa, knew Villa's widow, who was made an honorary citizen of Columbus.

    Pancho Villa, once a terrorist, now celebrated in New Mexico 2011

  • In an oral history compiled by the Minnesota Historical Society, one of my great-uncles, Nick, who fought and was wounded on both Guam and Okinawa, described the cruel gratifications of using napalm at close range: The Japanese would come out of those caves with their skin and clothes and everything burning.

    Getting Their Guns Off 2010

  • When I was a girl, I lived with my mother, but I spent a lot of time with my paternal grandparents and my great-aunts and great-uncles in our family's antiques store in Los Angeles Chinatown.

    Random House Reader's Circle chats with with Lisa See about Peony in Love 2010

  • But as I turned the bend, I saw a cluster of black bodies moving up the hill, and with my great-uncles .22 Hornet, harvested my first turkey.

    New Weekly Contest: Best Hunting Story Wins a Leatherman 2009

  • In an oral history compiled by the Minnesota Historical Society, one of my great-uncles, Nick, who fought and was wounded on both Guam and Okinawa, described the cruel gratifications of using napalm at close range: The Japanese would come out of those caves with their skin and clothes and everything burning.

    Getting Their Guns Off 2010

  • But as I turned the bend, I saw a cluster of black bodies moving up the hill, and with my great-uncles .22 Hornet, harvested my first turkey.

    New Weekly Contest: Best Hunting Story Wins a Leatherman 2009

  • The truth was, I wanted to show off my three young men, to parade them before their great-aunts and great-uncles and make their grandparents proud.

    Suits you, young sirs 2011

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