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My great-uncle Harry Portolan recalled being roused from sleep as a boy of 6 to assist with a home wine-making operation in the late 1920s.
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Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
Elian survived, only to find himself in the eye of a geopolitical storm (and globe-spanning media frenzy) as his great-uncle in Miami fought to keep him in the United States and his father sought his return to Cuba.
—Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 9 Oct. 2024
My niece knows her great-grandfather and great-uncle both graduated from there.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2024
After the war, Curt Engelhorn, Marlene’s great-uncle, took over the company, which was then a medium-sized family business, and turned it into a global empire.
—Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
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Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
Elian survived, only to find himself in the eye of a geopolitical storm (and globe-spanning media frenzy) as his great-uncle in Miami fought to keep him in the United States and his father sought his return to Cuba.
—Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 9 Oct. 2024
My niece knows her great-grandfather and great-uncle both graduated from there.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2024
After the war, Curt Engelhorn, Marlene’s great-uncle, took over the company, which was then a medium-sized family business, and turned it into a global empire.
—Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
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“Great-uncle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/great-uncle. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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