cousin
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"My grandmother and my auntie used to tell me that he's a cousin of the family. Cause you know, it's a very small island, Corsica."
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
Lowe is the brother of “St. Elmo’s Fire” actor Rob Lowe, whose youngest son paid tribute to his late cousin after her death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Two days after Sabat was released from prison, Nurse's children visited her and on returning home, told their father her "friend or cousin" had been there.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
How could it be that the elf in a button-down shirt now looked like someone’s cool bisexual cousin!
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026
“Yo, I’m not keeping your spot in this line, cousin, not if you’re gonna—” Kiki cut herself off.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The only team to be more clinical than the Seagulls is their avian cousins the Magpies, who actually have the lowest xG in the league so far.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
But jet fuel and diesel are the kissing cousins of the energy world, both coming from the same middle-distillate group at the refining stage.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Those people included cousins, friends and former clients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
It did not make sense to me that only children had aunts, uncles, and cousins.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
And considering that Ophie never wanted to be around her cousins, that was saying something about how much she already missed school.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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It's All in the Family
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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