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Wallpaper, everywhere Wallpaper, once nothing more than an outdated choice in your great-aunt’s living room, has come back with a vengeance.—Maya Chawla, Architectural Digest, 3 Nov. 2025 Here’s a representative experience on the modern internet: Out of the blue a few weeks ago, my great-aunt sent me and a few of her friends an Instagram Reel of two dogs seated like humans at a table, taping a podcast.—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025 In a touch of magical realism, Dolores hears a chorus of voices made up of her deceased female relatives, including her two mothers, aunts, great-aunts and grandmothers, commenting on her decisions.—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025 My great-aunt Sabena, who lost her husband and children in the Holocaust, standing up at the end of each seder and delivering a short speech in Yiddish thanking the family for giving her a new life in Canada.—Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for great-aunt
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