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brother

[bruhth-er, bruhth-ur] / ˈbrʌð ər, ˈbrʌðˈɜr /
NOUN
male sibling
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‘I am at a loss’: My brother is dying.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

Of five proposed directors named in WLF’s proposal, two are named Witkoff: Zachary Witkoff and Robert Witkoff, who is Steve Witkoff’s brother.

From Slate Jul. 22, 2026

Baszucki is the brother of the founder and CEO of the online-gaming company Roblox, and is himself a longtime board member at that company.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

And he is not the first Miliband to hold the role: his brother David was foreign secretary for Gordon Brown from 2007 to 2010.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Newspaper editors supportive of the spirits ran stories disparaging Chauncey and his brother as “itinerant, catch-penny lecturers,” “dunces” and “accomplished mountebanks.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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

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

These coaches are to be admired as they take on this arduous task with a lot less resources and financial compensation than many of their brethren at other CIF schools.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 2, 2025

“Jason Grace, the West Wind has been called many things...warm, gentle, life-giving, and devilishly handsome. But I have never been called startling. I leave that crass behavior to my gusty brethren in the north.”

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Rodgers also has been estranged from his parents and brothers for quite some time now.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Aaron Rodgers recently shared photos of himself with his parents and one of his brothers on social media.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

The brothers, who are being held in federal detention, appeared before a magistrate in Miami on Monday, where a lawyer representing them said they would fight their extradition to the U.K.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

The brothers now face a total of 59 charges, police said.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Calling Greeley, “the self appointed Attorney General for the hobgoblin society,” the Burr brothers set out to expose spirit communication as a fraud and tell the public the truth about the Fox sisters.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock




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