family unit

Example Sentences

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They also asked families to submit wish lists for all members, including adults, and a stick-figure drawing of their family unit.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2025

Now, the tight-knit family unit that entered the Avignon tribunal last September is no more.

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2025

When you really get to know Los Angeles, like the real Los Angeles, there’s a certain family unit that’s really beautiful.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2024

"We suggest that vocal learning in sperm whales may not be limited to vertical transmission from adults to their kin, but that horizontal social learning from outside the immediate family unit may also be occurring."

From Science Daily • May 16, 2024

I was afraid that I might look ungrateful to my uncle, who didn’t have to take me in, if I distanced myself from the family unit.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah