stepbrother
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“I was so excited to go. We told his stepbrother, who lives there, so he had cleared his schedule. I had to tell him that we can’t go anymore. We still haven’t gone.”
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
"I'm really happy that people have a place to do this," she told AFP between her table of refreshments and the green camping tent she shares with her mother, stepbrother, and his mother.
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
The suspected shooter's mother, 39-year-old Jennifer Jacobs, who was also known as Jennifer Strang, and stepbrother, 11-year-old Emmett Jacobs were also killed, police confirmed.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
“Law enforcement hasn’t cared for a long time,” Mopreme Shakur, Tupac Shakur’s stepbrother, told The Associated Press over Zoom from his home in Los Angeles.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 4, 2023
Roy watched in wonderment as more and more kids slipped out of the crowd and began joining hands, forming a human barricade around Beatrice’s self-buried stepbrother.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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Josh Peck and Bell, the show's titular characters who portrayed two teenage stepbrothers, worked together across the span of four seasons from 2004 to 2007.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2024
Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly play another awkward pair, who engage in an escalating rivalry when they become stepbrothers in their 30s and must live in the same house.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2022
Survivors include a son from his first marriage, William Jr.; two stepbrothers; two stepsisters; and three grandchildren.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2022
Along with their pet platypus, stepbrothers Phineas and Ferb battle evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2019
Survived by her father, stepmother, and two stepbrothers who barely knew her.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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