brotherly

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In brotherly exchanges, Jack, 14, is quite funny, but his mouth occasionally writes checks that his body can’t cash, for Finn, 16, has height and weight on him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

Wherever they’ve come from, they’re together now, and a mutual respect and brotherly camaraderie emerges, as well as a genuine and quite touching form of male bonding.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

In a statement the ministry said that "we cannot remain unresponsive to what is happening in brotherly Serbia."

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2025

I was shocked to see him gesture to a framed photo of Vincent and another guy beaming at the camera, arms flung over each other’s shoulders in a brotherly manner.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2025

They wrestled the Americans toward the shed door affectionately, filling the night with manly blather and brotherly rodomontades.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut