noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
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I know where I would feel safer taking my nine-year-\#old nephew to.
young
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We heard from Mr Edgar that his sister had died, and that he was returning soon with his young nephew .
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But the Earl's followers - and among them was his young nephew William Marshal - told a very different story.
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Where was Tsu Ma's strapping young nephew ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And indeed no one-not one of her children or grandchildren or great-grandchildren or nephews or nieces-could ever remember seeing Maria ill.
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His nephew told him to take a walk, get lost in the crowd.
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It was nearly twenty-six years before he saw his nephew again.
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Morrison said she sent her niece and a nephew to see if anything had reached shore, but they saw nothing.
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Must know his job else Riddle wouldn't have kept him, nephew or no nephew.
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Rilla Challiss, married to Amelia Otis's nephew James, also thought it a mistake.
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Uncle and nephew knelt shoulder to shoulder, hands cupped, heads bowed in the simple position of submission.