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brother

[bruhth-er, bruhth-ur] / ˈbrʌð ər, ˈbrʌðˈɜr /
NOUN
male sibling
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His brother, Aung Maw Zin, said he remembers Sylvia asking him: “What should I tell my daughter?”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

In 2003, aged 19, Meena had visited the orphanage in Mumbai with her parents and her brother who was adopted from Goa.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

Myra Cabilan told AFP she had flown to Coron to find her missing brother, 40-year-old Rammel Gonzaga, who had taken the ferry from Manila on a business trip with his brother-in-law.

From Barron's Sep. 12, 2026

The report states that Hickerson and his brother Zach Hickerson were with Panettiere inside an apartment when the 36-year-old actress died.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

Led by brother David Fox, a troop of men carrying shovels and pickaxes descended the stairs to dig up the peddler’s body.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

After bidding a hearty olé to my literary brethren, I reach Café Gijón, outside the bounds of Las Letras, but not its spirit.

From Salon Jun. 23, 2026

As they grew, these companies became far larger than the rest of their small and midsize brethren, so their continued gains gave an outsize boost to the indexes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

The U.S. players have made it abundantly clear that they respect their Canadian brethren.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 27, 2026

Our chickens, on the other hand, are treated abominably, packed in tightly with their germy brethren, raised in squalor, pumped with hormones, and only made clean at the end.

From Slate Feb. 13, 2026

He bade his brethren: “Wait and be ready, for the Lord shall come.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

They've met each other's spouses, children, brothers and parents.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

Several areas of the report were redacted, including statements from the brothers about what transpired as they called 911.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

The judge raised concerns that the brothers were a flight risk and said there were no special circumstances that warranted their release.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

The brothers were all smiles as they attended the family reunion on Tuesday night, but Casey also revealed they had lost both their parents this year.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

Then I follow Mother and Father and my brothers, Isaac and Jacob, to the Plaza Mayor.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar




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