close-knit
Example Sentences
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As investigators searched for a motive in the killing of six people at the Covenant School in Nashville, the close-knit community there was struggling with the enormity of its loss.
From New York Times
Mr Usher added that Carol was part of a "fairly close-knit community".
From BBC
“We’re a close-knit community; we’re small. And when something like this happens, we tend to come together even closer. We didn’t just lose 13 people, we lost 13 family members.”
From Seattle Times
López Obrador has repeatedly said that Mexico’s close-knit family values are what have saved it from the wave of fentanyl overdoses.
From Seattle Times
For more than a century, scientists have been finding hints of a close-knit relationship between the nervous and the immune systems.
From Scientific American
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