kindred
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It made me laugh so hard, I knew from that point on that he was a kindred spirit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
She failed to find a kindred spirit in Dudevant, whom Ms. Sampson archly describes as a man of “no particular brilliance.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
He also raved about chicken fried steak, posting on X: “Every Scottish person in America needs to immediately try Chicken Fried Steak, and you’ll realise we and the Americans are kindred spirits.”
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
After buying a copy of Allan Taylor's 1978 LP The Traveller, Ed Sheeran may have spotted something of a kindred spirit in his fellow singer-songwriter.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
“There is no one to meddle, sir. I have no kindred to interfere.”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Come with me as I follow this host of real-deal Dallas kindreds.
From Southern Living ● Sep. 16, 2010
Defend our liberties, and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindreds and tongues.
From Time Magazine Archive
Never again shall there be any such league of Elves and Men; for Men multiply and the Firstborn decrease, and the two kindreds are estranged.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Yet, for all his clumsiness, his good-will was so unchanging that none of the farmyard kindreds had any dread of him, saving only the pig in his sty.
From Hoof and Claw by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
Sometimes, less dimly, I could see the bowed heads of myriads of worshippers, "a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and peoples, and tongues."
From Willing to Die by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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Romeo and Juliet
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