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kinfolk

[kin-fohk] / ˈkɪnˌfoʊk /


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Of course, like most Americans, we were paying no attention whatsoever to developments in Sudan before the fighting started — and before we learned that our own kinfolk were in danger.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2023

Cozzens also takes an admirably nuanced approach to the Muscogee, Cherokee and Choctaw, who assisted Jackson over their Red Stick kinfolk, a detail that further complicates simplistic renderings of Indigenous-White relations.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023

Tom Hanks plays a former Confederate Army officer tasked with shepherding an orphaned girl across Texas to her surviving kinfolk in the 2020 western “News of the World.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2021

And it all started in those early years with her inclination to view trees as kinfolk.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2021

One of the kinfolk is in the Valiant Village, which is a care facility for patients suffering from dementia.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan




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