brethren

Example Sentences

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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

Even as its Big Tech brethren collect AI equipment, Apple is sticking to its rather asset-light ways.

From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025

For years, Tadej Pogacar and his professional cycling brethren had been given promises about this bike-mad pocket of East Africa.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

As Liu learned, if you, a human, eat your distant vegetable brethren, you can get a lot of pipecolic acid in your diet: cucumbers, for example, are high in it.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2025

That age-old weakness of brethren you always root out and you always use.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee