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brother

[bruhth-er, bruhth-ur] / ˈbrʌð ər, ˈbrʌðˈɜr /
NOUN
male sibling
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On Monday, Hungarian authorities also detained Orbán's brother and three others as part of a people-smuggling case.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

“It’s hard to share that my brother, Christian Cousins, has passed away,” Roeser wrote on Instagram.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

Seventeen-year-old Rachel has cared for her younger brother Reuben for seven years.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

He and his partners — his brother Dennis and friend Kenny Schwartz — would eventually start collecting vintage frames to sell in a storefront in Sunset Plaza.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

She finally found her brother, wounded and malnourished, at Camp O’Donnell in Capas, a US military base north of Manila that was occupied by the Japanese military.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

But in the penultimate episode, Blunt and Sheen stumbled on to a theory that the quiet contestants were more suspicious than their outspoken brethren.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Historically, when this gap has been in the top quintile, it’s led to an average 7.5% outperformance over the following year for higher-quality stocks over their lower-quality brethren.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

The U.S. players have made it abundantly clear that they respect their Canadian brethren.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

It was said they were brethren and sistren, each tasked to watch over a particular piece of the world—the skies, seas, jungles, deserts, mountains, and realm of the dead.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Britpop's one-time feuding brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis -- who recently announced a 2027 world tour -- also declined to make the trip.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026

“Christian and his twin brother, Joseph ‘Joey’ Cousins, are my brothers through my biological father.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

His younger brothers skipped the academic grind to work on the family farm, a life Akshay doesn’t want.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

It’s 1986 and two brothers launch a business advising the companies along this polluted waterfront on how to come into legal environmental compliance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

Now I crossed the field, watching for the Mallon brothers.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff


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