kindred
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She failed to find a kindred spirit in Dudevant, whom Ms. Sampson archly describes as a man of “no particular brilliance.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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
After buying a copy of Allan Taylor's 1978 LP The Traveller, Ed Sheeran may have spotted something of a kindred spirit in his fellow singer-songwriter.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Founding Father Alexander Hamilton met a kindred spirit in Caracas-born Francisco de Miranda, who fought for both the American and French revolutionary causes.
From Barron's ● Jan. 18, 2026
She looked right past Sasha’s invisibility cloak and saw a kindred spirit.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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
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 Bull, Charles Livingston
Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
From An Examination into and an Elucidation of the Great Principle of the Mediation and Atonement of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by Taylor, John M. (John Metcalf)
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Romeo and Juliet
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Things Fall Apart
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