How to Use nepo baby in a Sentence

nepo baby

noun
  • But don't call them nepo babies.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Is there any better kind of nepo baby?
    — Victoria Herman, Air Mail, 8 Nov. 2025
  • This nepo baby doth protest a little too much.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026
  • This here is a nepo baby failing to live up to his surname.
    — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Lamas also is a bit of a nepo baby who was born into show business.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • That stuff has currency in this most nepo baby-friendly of fields.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2026
  • She co-stars with a fellow nepo baby in Vanishing Tour.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 23 June 2026
  • Sylvie does, in fact, discover the hats and deputizes Emily to fire the nepo baby.
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025
  • In some dynasties, the lineage is clear—the Trumps and the Kennedys are a long line of nesting nepo babies.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Being a nepo baby can also mean quietly swiping the goods from your parents' closets.
    — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Elsewhere in his interview, Nivola weighed in on another hot topic — nepo babies.
    — Michelle Lee, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • King has spoken on multiple occasions about not being close to her father growing up and evading the nepo baby label.
    — Grace Gavilanes, PEOPLE, 19 Apr. 2026
  • As the nepo baby of the group, Alani already has what many of them desire, which allows her ambition to manifest as a need to be wanted.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The progressive Democrat, who has now taken up her father's mantle, doesn't like being branded as a nepo baby.
    — Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
  • There’s a whole generation of nepo babies that existed before the phrase was (recently) created.
    — Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 20 Feb. 2026
  • In an era driven by Hollywood nepo babies, Dave Franco doesn’t totally agree that the label applies to him.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Early, as the family’s dented nepo baby, is a peculiar fount of profane insight, twisted but touchingly damaged.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026
  • But Cage is far from the only big name to have been born with a different one, and sometimes celebs choose new aliases for reasons a bit more intriguing than simply being a nepo baby.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 29 May 2026
  • But the nepo baby trend may extend beyond Hollywood, touching the lives of everyday Americans.
    — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 27 May 2026
  • His adult daughter, Rickie (Perry Mattfeld), is fighting to prove herself on staff despite being both a nepo baby and a woman.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The lies begin as soon as Max encounters Guillermo, an arrogant nepo baby who blamed him for Ane’s death but now pretends to accept his apology.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 19 Sep. 2025
  • These are essentially the nepo babies of the PA crowd — people who have been employed primarily because of family or friend connections.
    — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Maia has help from her friends Charlie (Jordan Firstman), a pop star stylist and Alani (True Whitaker), an aimless movie biz nepo baby.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
  • While a student at Brown University, Wenner teamed up with fellow nepo baby Scout Willis to form the band Gus + Scout.
    — Emma Banks, InStyle, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Fittingly for Iran, the news that Mojtaba Khamenei, the ultimate theocratic nepo baby, will be the new supreme leader can be described as both expected and bizarre.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Lerman portrays nepo baby billionaire Jay Pflug in Only Murders in the Building season 5.
    — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Not only is her delivery hilarious, but having Forest Whitaker’s daughter play an unabashed Hollywood nepo baby is a sly bit of meta casting that pays off big time here.
    — Caroline Framke, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
  • In one sequence in the pilot, two characters (an influencer and a nepo baby, played by Odessa A’zion and True Whitaker, respectively) end up going on that long drive to the beach.
    — Rachel Brodsky, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The 50-year-old Academy Award-winning actress, estimated to be worth $65 million, slammed the nepo baby label altogether.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2025
  • He’s regarded as one of the most successful actors (also nepo baby as the son of Martin Sheen and brother of Emilio Estevez), but in the past couple of decades, a life full of controversy has cast him to the sidelines.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 10 Sep. 2025

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