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  • noun The daughter of someone's stepbrother or stepsister.

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Examples

  • I bought two tickets, a senior citizen one for me and a child's for my 10-year old step-niece, Stella, to Pixar's Toy Story 3 the same week that the Barnes & Noble board announced that it was considering putting the giant book retailer up for sale, and it got me to thinking about why young people need books any more in the age of the internet and Pixar.

    Charles Warner: Steve Jobs and Barnes & Noble 2010

  • I bought two tickets, a senior citizen one for me and a child's for my 10-year old step-niece, Stella, to Pixar's Toy Story 3 the same week that the Barnes & Noble board announced that it was considering putting the giant book retailer up for sale, and it got me to thinking about why young people need books any more in the age of the internet and Pixar.

    Charles Warner: Steve Jobs and Barnes & Noble 2010

  • My step-niece is having a baby, and the shower is on 8/1.

    July 2004 2004

  • My step-niece is having a baby, and the shower is on 8/1.

    Awww... 2004

  • Isabel's father's brother married my uncle -- no, I would say my step-niece.

    Tiverton Tales Alice Brown 1902

  • Isabel's father's brother married my uncle -- no, I would say my step-niece.

    Tiverton Tales Alice Brown 1902

  • Another member of the household was Barbara Ross, a step-niece.

    Options O. Henry 1886

  • [284] She was Catherine Barton, Newton's step-niece.

    A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

  • Ky.; step-niece, Lynn Whitehurst of Waverly; several nieces, nephew, relatives and friends.

    Tennessean.com - Robertson County Times 2010

  • She needs to be asked why she has nothing to do with her step-niece.

    The Common Ills 2009

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