aunties
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The love of our people, the Hey aunties, are all we usually have to fall back on, and that has to be enough.
From Salon
My father, aunties and uncles would later talk about the devastating impact of incarceration — the shame and humiliation, the damage to family ties and loss of parental authority, the disrupted careers and unfulfilled aspirations.
From Los Angeles Times
Anderson has aunties and uncles and cousins who live in this world of the Diné, as the Navajo know themselves.
From New York Times
SB: I think a lot of the warmth of those spaces comes from like seeing my aunties and some of the matriarchs of our family create those spaces.
From Los Angeles Times
She was born in London but has visited family in Afghanistan seven times to visit her grandfather, cousins, aunties and uncles.
From BBC
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