kinship
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Delivering a toast, he said: "A blessing to the kinship between the Irish and Canadian people, may we always meet each other at the threshold and cross it together."
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Do you feel some kinship with your former castmates on that?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
Whether or not Church had deeply studied Ruskin, an aesthetic kinship is noticeable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
That kinship is what makes Coppola’s first documentary, “Marc by Sofia,” such a thrill — and also what occasionally holds the film back.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026
In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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Because the operations at most milk banks make it difficult for kinships to be traced, most religious scholars think that the banks "should be treated like breastfeeding," Ghaly says.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2021
Dobyns has forged deep friendships in the Native-American medicine communities over the years, says Amos, kinships she has been generous enough to share with Amos.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2017
But other structures bear strong kinships in these animals, too.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2013
Seeing it in one fell swoop requires reserves of concentration in the viewer — and possibly a flow chart of the people and their complex and shifting kinships.
From Time ● Aug. 22, 2011
He gives us back our kinships, and friendships, with a new light on them, an added tenderness, transfiguring our common ties and intimacies, flooding them with a supernal joy.
From Friendship by Black, Hugh
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