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affinity

[uh-fin-i-tee] / əˈfɪn ɪ ti /




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Our churches will surely resolve their objective differences more readily if the faithful harbor mutual affinity and a sincere desire for unity, as expressed through prayer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Carrey had spoken about his affinity for solitude even earlier.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Green recalls having a real affinity with Alexander.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

It features works by the late artist Yun Hyong-keun, for whom RM has a particular personal affinity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

“Their beasts, however, found no such affinity for each other.”

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

Mr. Lloyd isn’t the first musician to explore affinities between jazz and Indian music.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

But the non-college-educated voters who have traditionally been his bedrock supporters are facing so much financial strain these days that his cultural affinities, even when they’re somewhat authentic, just don’t cut it.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

Kurds, while mostly Sunni, share cultural and linguistic affinities with Persians and have historically had less friction with the Iranian state than with fellow Kurds in Iraq and Turkey.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

It showed binding affinities of −8.6 kcal/mol with AChE and −8.7 kcal/mol with BChE, meaning it attached more strongly to both enzymes than other compounds tested, including Succinic acid.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2026

Thus copper sits on top of silver and silver sits on top of gold because of their chemical affinities as metals, while helium, neon, and argon are in a column made up of gases.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson


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