clan
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The streamer and Shondaland announced Thursday that an untitled spinoff about the early life of the future matriarch of the Bridgerton clan is in the works.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
The Weston family, worth billions, is a Canadian-British food-business clan that traces its roots to a bakery business founded in Toronto in 1882.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Very little of this was understood 30 years ago, explains Robert Kolker in “The Vanishing Family,” his sensitive saga of one affected clan whose members began falling ill in the 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Today, Carter is simply family, part of the Smiths’ extended clan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
It was Sunday, and she was preparing the weekly lesson for her clan of boys in the Junior Department of her church.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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More than 40, however, are family offices that manage fortunes for wealthy clans and individuals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
But with the country deeply divided between rival clans, and much of it under the control of Islamist insurgent group Al-Shabaab, there has been little progress on organising elections beyond a few localised pockets.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
Palestinians in the central Gazan city of Deir al-Balah voted on lists of candidates that were seen as associated with various clans and political groups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
The Ming, Bau, Wei and Liu clans have dominated the remote border town of Laukkaing in Myanmar's impoverished Shan state, since 2009.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026
It was how he’d always lived: alone with Fa, away from the clans.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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