brotherhood
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We have like a brotherhood and a friendship in real life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
There’s so much decorum among judges, this infamous brotherhood of the robe, that keeps them from directly criticizing one another.
From Slate ● May 18, 2026
“The fire service is just so enmeshed. It is such a brotherhood, and there isn’t that scrutiny on it,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
Half Man explores the breakdown of their brotherhood and sees Niall struggle to accept his sexuality, while Ruben grapples with a trauma from his past.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026
Then he would remind us that there was a brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that not even time could break.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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The leaders of Senegal’s influential Muslim brotherhoods have urged protesters to show restraint in the days ahead.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2021
The leaders of Senegal’s influential Muslim brotherhoods on Sunday urged protesters to show restraint in the days ahead.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 8, 2021
Jia Zhangke takes an empathetic look at criminal brotherhoods in China in his new gangster film Ash Is Purest White.
From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2019
Different colors — white, purple, red — are associated with different brotherhoods, religious groups for laypeople that meet year-round and are a large part of Semana Santa processions.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2016
He spake of the cults of the forest demons, whose wails could be heard in the bush when the brotherhoods met in convocation.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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