affinity

While recovering, his English degree and natural affinity for mentoring younger people directed him toward teaching.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

The result, she says, is a deep inherited mistrust: Mizrahim don’t hate Arabs, and even feel cultural affinity with them, but they will not trust a Muslim majority to guarantee their safety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Asked about music, the artist somewhat reluctantly traces his affinity back to childhood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

"She'd made peace with that. She had a deep affinity with the water and was a remarkable person," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Of racial affinity or sympathy, he gave no indication.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

The origins of their language are among the most disputed questions of linguistics: for not a single other one of the world’s major languages are the affinities to other languages still in doubt.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond