brethren
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Resident birds show more smarts than migratory ones, and city birds are sharper than their country brethren.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
The U.S. players have made it abundantly clear that they respect their Canadian brethren.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
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
Yes, the big four—JPMorgan Chase, Goldman, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of America—are still formidable, but in many cases they’ve been eclipsed, particularly as compensation-making machines, by their private-market brethren and their multigenerational wealth-creating fee structures.
From Barron's • Dec. 5, 2025
I no longer lingered after Friday prayer among my brethren.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
Vocabulary lists containing brethren
"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry (1775)
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The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
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