kinship
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His people are ancient and few, a clan whose kinship with nature left them vulnerable to warring nobles who all but wiped them out.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Do you feel some kinship with your former castmates on that?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
As their kinship deepened, the two seemed to forge a single identity, one that recognized wordlessly what worked in a song and what didn’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Spouses are exempt everywhere, while children, siblings, and others may pay between 0% and 16% depending on the state and kinship.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 12, 2026
There seemed to be a tenuous, if unspoken, strand of affection and respect growing between them, but otherwise Joe didn’t feel much kinship with most of the boys in the shell house.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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Because the operations at most milk banks make it difficult for kinships to be traced, most religious scholars think that the banks "should be treated like breastfeeding," Ghaly says.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2021
Dobyns has forged deep friendships in the Native-American medicine communities over the years, says Amos, kinships she has been generous enough to share with Amos.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2017
But other structures bear strong kinships in these animals, too.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2013
Seeing it in one fell swoop requires reserves of concentration in the viewer — and possibly a flow chart of the people and their complex and shifting kinships.
From Time ● Aug. 22, 2011
One way out is the Arunta way, where totems no longer Breaking up of totemism. designate kinships.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
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