brethren
Example Sentences
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The U.S. players have made it abundantly clear that they respect their Canadian brethren.
From Los Angeles Times
These days, Greenlanders are shocked by how few words their brethren can speak in their ancestral tongue—and by the poverty of Native Americans in Alaska.
The Azeris of Iran eye their flourishing Turkic brethren in Azerbaijan with a degree of envy.
Just like the North Star and all its whirling, starry brethren, a person’s idea of where “home” is remains in perpetual motion, one’s whole life long.
From Literature
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Even as its Big Tech brethren collect AI equipment, Apple is sticking to its rather asset-light ways.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.