sister
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New customers at Dar Lbahja, the Moroccan restaurant she runs with her sister Touria, called her by name before she’d even introduced herself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
“Especially my 93-year-old brother and my 95-year-old sister that are here. This is a very, very special day.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Then my sister married a thru-hiker from north Florida.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
English-language news site Nation Thailand reports that the boys' mother and older sister had been waiting on the beach when the trio were brought back to safety.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
“We must all be specially considerate of dear Jans today. This is the day her husband’s sister died some years ago—or was it his cousin?”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
“Frozen III,” meanwhile, will see Anna and Kristoff finally get married before the sisters meet a mysterious stranger who also wields ice magic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Evolutionary theory therefore proposed that females might sometimes gain a greater evolutionary advantage by helping raise their sisters than by producing offspring of their own.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
Two of Rani’s older sisters have government jobs, an enormous help for her farming family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
When Cincinnati-based Ignite Peace, a group founded by Catholic sisters that has since become an interfaith organization, planned the “ICE: We See You” response for Sunday, they encouraged participants to wear “religious garments.”
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
He glanced out the bright windows, then boomed, “Even the sunshine is somber today, brothers and sisters, when we see Miss Myrt Arbuckle on her final journey, as she swaps semesters for eternity.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
