cousin

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With him was 35-year-old Hani, a technically minded cousin who spearheaded the effort to understand how the abduction took place, and who gave only his first name to avoid reprisals.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

In mid-2015, Flores’s other nephews, Efraín Campo and Franqui Flores, then 28 and 30, made a play to join their elder cousin in the big-money league.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Finckenstein had learned that a female cousin of his had joined Ebel’s parish.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Elmore remembers asking that very question of her cousin before his final days.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Czar Nicholas II of Russia was a cousin by marriage: His wife, Alexandra, was one of Victoria’s granddaughters.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman