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brotherhood

[bruhth-er-hood] / ˈbrʌð ərˌhʊd /


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There’s so much decorum among judges, this infamous brotherhood of the robe, that keeps them from directly criticizing one another.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

“The fire service is just so enmeshed. It is such a brotherhood, and there isn’t that scrutiny on it,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Fez, for example, is a favourite destination for many Senegalese Muslim followers of Tidianism, an influential brotherhood in Senegal whose founder, Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane, is buried there.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

"I didn't know what would happen if I disrupted the brotherhood you have in the locker room," he says.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2026

There on the worn stones of the Quarter I enlisted the aid of this wilted flower of a human in gathering his associates in foppery together behind a banner of brotherhood.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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