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brethren

noun as in male sibling

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Black American slaves, it was often said in defense of slavery, were better fed and housed than their unenslaved brethren in Africa.

Even as its Big Tech brethren collect AI equipment, Apple is sticking to its rather asset-light ways.

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The league, as leagues do, will maintain this is still an emerging business that cannot approach the finances of the NBA and its brethren.

There’s not too much of this kind of gay cliché, though Mr. Heizer is required to make his character an obvious target among his macho “brethren,” some of whom—shockingly—may be gay themselves.

Its source was either from the government or her radical brethren, depending on the interview.

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