affinity

The gatherings help family members get to know each other and “make sure that knowledge and affinity for the company continues,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Haunting and powerful, her paintings, particularly those from the past decade, reveal her strong affinity with Egon Schiele, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon and other artists who rendered the human form with febrile expressivity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

"I had hoped that Nolan's affinity with these Homeric themes might push him to new creative heights, and enable him to conjure more believable characters," she wrote.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Underscoring their dual affinity: Two Mexican Americans played for the U.S. national team — one from Ciudad Juárez and another from El Paso — and two more played for the Mexican team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026

“Their beasts, however, found no such affinity for each other.”

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

Against the backdrop of the impending presidential election—cue laughter at references to Hillary Clinton’s inevitable win—their affinities and hopes emerge and diverge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

But the non-college-educated voters who have traditionally been his bedrock supporters are facing so much financial strain these days that his cultural affinities, even when they’re somewhat authentic, just don’t cut it.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

Kurds, while mostly Sunni, share cultural and linguistic affinities with Persians and have historically had less friction with the Iranian state than with fellow Kurds in Iraq and Turkey.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

Although this claim was not widely supported by the scientific community, the real affinities of Furcula were not reinvestigated for almost 100 years.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024

But it was from the difference between us, not from the affinities and likenesses, but from the difference, that that love came: and it was itself the bridge, the only bridge, across what divided us.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin