kindred
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Mr. Harris tactfully omits mention of the 30-plus-year age gap between Ms. Underwood and the 79-year-old comedian, suggesting instead that the couple are kindred spirits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
You see this kindred spirit through reading, and it’s the most beautiful thing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
For Lauer, the changes affected his delivery, but the specifics were not as important as finding a kindred spirit in Connor McGuiness, the Dodgers’ assistant pitching coach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
He also raved about chicken fried steak, posting on X: “Every Scottish person in America needs to immediately try Chicken Fried Steak, and you’ll realise we and the Americans are kindred spirits.”
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
“There is no one to meddle, sir. I have no kindred to interfere.”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Come with me as I follow this host of real-deal Dallas kindreds.
From Southern Living ● Sep. 16, 2010
Defend our liberties, and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindreds and tongues.
From Time Magazine Archive
Never again shall there be any such league of Elves and Men; for Men multiply and the Firstborn decrease, and the two kindreds are estranged.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
The sleeper awoke,—wide awake all at once, as it behoves the wild kindreds to be.
From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
It was an easy life; and the beavers grew fat while all the rest of the wild kindreds, save the porcupine and the bear, were growing 105 lean with famine.
From The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories by Charles Livingston Bull
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Romeo and Juliet
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