kissing cousin
Example Sentences
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Not to be confused with its kissing cousin, the paradox of choice, in which too many options paralyze people from making any decision at all.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2016
Sneakily tweaking our fears of terrorism, “10 Cloverfield Lane,” though no more than a kissing cousin to its namesake, is smartly chilling and finally spectacular.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2016
A few months later, during a cocktail class at Barmini, the cocktail lab next to Andrés’s extravagant Minibar here in the District, I got a chance to assemble its kissing cousin, the D.O.C.
From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2014
Shalhoub's emotionally explosive, overbearing opera manager is a kissing cousin of Max Bialystock, of "The Producers," and the actor bellows with a fine comic roar.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2010
Bile green with black, bile green with white, bile green with nile green, its kissing cousin.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
