near relative
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But it’s his pages of sharp-eyed nature writing that will stay in mind, including an encounter with “a European brown bear, a near relative of the American grizzly.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“A near relative to the famous Red Jacket and of the present Chief of the six nations Cherokees.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2019
It may be my favorite Le Sia sauce, although it’s a close call between that and its near relative, “numbing and spicy,” which is propelled into tingling ma la territory by Sichuan peppercorns.
From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2018
As this description suggests, Broad City is a near relative of .
From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2014
But he thus again in 1856 became master of the situation.—One of the oldest apostles of Sen, his near relative Hung Yin, had been turned off at Hong Kong.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz
