brother
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US rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars, known for hit songs including The Kill, This is War and Kings And Queens, was formed by Leto and his brother Shannon in the late 1990s.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
My brother has very few assets outside the trust.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
“My father placed his $600,000 Wisconsin home into a revocable trust, naming my brother as beneficiary.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
You’re dealing with a lot: the potential loss of your brother and the collective and personal grief if he dies before your aging father, in addition to the financial responsibility of managing this $600,000 trust.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
C. Chauncey Burr, editor of the Nineteenth Century Review, and his brother, Heman, fell into this category of enraged skeptics.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
After bidding a hearty olé to my literary brethren, I reach Café Gijón, outside the bounds of Las Letras, but not its spirit.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 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
The Azeris of Iran eye their flourishing Turkic brethren in Azerbaijan with a degree of envy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 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
Leo had thought she’d meant Narcissus, but now he wondered if the real lesson for him was Echo—invisible to her brethren, cursed to love someone who didn’t care for her.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
Mold Crown Court heard the brothers, both locom optometrists, were driving from Aberystwyth to Manchester at the time.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
One of his brothers left behind a family of seven, the other a family of five, while his sister had four family members with her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Yemeni brothers Yunes, 33, and Yassin, 24, say they fled Houthi rebels in 2023, after they overran their country's capital eight years earlier.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
On Wednesday, the Collison brothers spent several hours at Situational’s offices, people familiar with the matter said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Pop and Mama and my brothers and sisters and me all grabbed brooms and shovels and took to the fields and started swinging, vowing to beat ’em off if we had to.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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