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[kin-drid] / ˈkɪn drɪd /




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Jobs and Mr. Johnson were kindred spirits when it came to strategy, but temperamentally they were a mismatched pair—California tech and Midwestern retail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

You see this kindred spirit through reading, and it’s the most beautiful thing.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 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

All the same, it’s no news that these two artists are of a kindred spirit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

And since you come with an Elf of our kindred, we are willing to befriend you, as Elrond asked; though it is not our custom to lead strangers through our land.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

For these most diligent of all the four-foot kindreds this was holiday time.

From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

Up to this moment Logan had believed that there was no voice in all the wilderness unfamiliar to his ears, no speech of all the wild kindreds which he could not in rough fashion interpret.

From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts


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