kissing cousins

Example Sentences

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In this chapter, you describe cults and conspiracy theories as "kissing cousins," noting that America has its own favorite flavor of conspiracy theory, with three key ingredients.

From Salon • May 26, 2025

But while numerous other culinary trends have come and gone, Cal Mex has not only remained but thrived, even as skeptics mocked and dismissed it and its kissing cousins, Tex-Mex and Sur-Mex, as something inferior.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2022

In a show that parsed the story of glamour after dark, he found harmony in opposition, made clashing prints into kissing cousins.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2020

Maybe crime and music are not meant for a shotgun wedding, as it were, but rather to remain kissing cousins, circling each other warily, snarling, unruly and magnetic.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2016

It’s such a distant connection that I hope Oscar won’t bring up our being kissing cousins at school.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez