fraternal
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Buckingham Palace issued a statement saying that fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and color memory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
In the official statement, the Palace said "pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and colour memory in ways others do not recognise, even many years after such a loss," the paper reports.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
"The Moon and Earth are more like fraternal twins."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Even more rare is the kind of triplets Craft gave birth to, Passi said: Two of them are identical twins and the third is a fraternal twin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
If identical twins possess a strong concordance for schizophrenia, say, while fraternal twins—born and bred in an identical environment—show little concordance, then the roots of that illness can be firmly attributed to genetics.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing fraternal
Lincoln Inaugural Address (March 1861)
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Max in the House of Spies
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