cousin
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He rushed out of his house in shorts and slippers, calling his cousin on the way to come help.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
His friend and a cousin carried in two fence rails said to have been split from logs by Lincoln, and he became the “Rail Splitter”—“a living symbol of frontier democracy,” as Mr. Earle puts it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
For years after he started building trucks, Ramirez and his cousin also ran a taco truck called LA Tacos & Co.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Jarunee Phosawad came from Roi Et in eastern Thailand to oversee the cremation of her cousin Kochaporn Sotharat's body and the return home of her ashes.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
But here I am, with a mailbox that Jonah can no longer bear to be in the same house with, a cousin who’s not speaking to me, and an overuse injury that’s my own fault.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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Curators hope they can be used to help save their cousins in the wild.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
She still urges friends and cousins to apply for MTA jobs because of the benefits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Nearly all my cousins still live in O.C., buying homes on blue-collar salaries and seeing their children off to colleges we didn’t have the opportunity to attend because we were discouraged by our parents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026
I recently noted that a couple of his Cabot cousins ran the Harvard endowment not that many decades ago, and a family member founded a money management firm as well.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
The cousins in Houston spoiled them rotten for one week.
From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis
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