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fraternal

[fruh-tur-nl] / frəˈtɜr nl /
ADJECTIVE
brotherly
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When community members aren’t arguing, the vibe is generally extremely supportive and fraternal.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

If one fraternal twin is autistic, the chance that the other twin is also autistic is about 20%, or about the same as it would be for a nontwin sibling.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025

After the two wed and have their first child, Agnes becomes pregnant with fraternal twins, a boy and a girl.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025

The fraternal gathering of men, costumed in Jérôme Kaplan’s chic, postmodern take on toga-party garb, is vividly spurred by Bernstein’s evocative composition—for strings, percussion and solo violin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

In 1924, Hermann Werner Siemens, the German eugenicist and Nazi sympathizer, proposed a twin study that advanced Galton’s proposal by meticulously separating identical twins from fraternal twins.*

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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