brethren
Example Sentences
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Our chickens, on the other hand, are treated abominably, packed in tightly with their germy brethren, raised in squalor, pumped with hormones, and only made clean at the end.
From Slate • Feb. 13, 2026
Even as its Big Tech brethren collect AI equipment, Apple is sticking to its rather asset-light ways.
From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025
Maybe you’re learning how to work more efficiently with the aid of ChatGPT and its robotic brethren.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025
As Liu learned, if you, a human, eat your distant vegetable brethren, you can get a lot of pipecolic acid in your diet: cucumbers, for example, are high in it.
From Salon • Mar. 5, 2025
If the east side of town hadn’t embraced Vickie Gomez, it was hard to envision a scenario in which it would embrace a school merger with its west-side brethren.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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