family unit
Example Sentences
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They also asked families to submit wish lists for all members, including adults, and a stick-figure drawing of their family unit.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2025
“LA gave every multi family unit a green bin due to a bureaucratic fever dream about composting,” the person wrote.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2025
But it was their generosity to other people outside their family unit which would make headlines in the years that followed.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024
"We suggest that vocal learning in sperm whales may not be limited to vertical transmission from adults to their kin, but that horizontal social learning from outside the immediate family unit may also be occurring."
From Science Daily • May 16, 2024
The first Ceremony began right on time, and Jonas watched as one after another each newchild was given a name and handed by the Nurturers to its new family unit.
From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
