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[kin-ship] / ˈkɪn ʃɪp /


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This place has an odd, accommodating kinship with these prehistoric monsters, a willingness to coexist rather than eliminate what would kill us.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

They are also using kinship DNA provided by his family to search international databases for potential matches.

From BBC Apr. 29, 2026

Do you feel any kinship with bands that broke out in a different era but have stayed relevant to some degree?

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 23, 2026

That kinship is what makes Coppola’s first documentary, “Marc by Sofia,” such a thrill — and also what occasionally holds the film back.

From Salon Mar. 27, 2026

What was the danger in showing the kinship between the sufferings of the Negro and the sufferings of other people?

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

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

Apart from those kinships among organisms disclosed by their developmental changes, the kinships which their adult forms show are profoundly significant.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents by John Lord




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