familial
Example Sentences
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The “stuff” being a body of work angled toward wistful ruminations on familial heritage, the search for brotherhood and “the question of what to do with all the sorrow.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
If you do become trustee, you must follow the trust terms and act in your niece’s best interests — and resist being the receptacle for endless familial requests.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
We worked in multiple arenas: national, federal, state, local, community, familial, and personal.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
Tom Nolan praises this “gritty melodrama of familial love and hereditary tragedy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Perhaps real love was familial, somehow linked to blood, since love for children did not die as romantic love did.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Vocabulary lists containing familial
It's All in the Family
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "F"
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Ungifted
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