blood brother

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Riding shotgun was Sumlin’s military blood brother, Sgt. 1st Class Jason Jarvis, a soldier on active-duty from Fort Bragg’s 18th Ordnance Company in North Carolina — Sumlin’s old unit.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2021

It’s also an origin story for Tomisaburo, or Storm Shadow — the prominent hero/villain and blood brother to Snake Eyes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2021

He feels he must go to save Bon, his blood brother, from dying in what he’s sure will be a suicide mission.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2015

Director Amat Escalante – a more explicitly political blood brother to Mexico's current king of neo-realist weirdness, Carlos Reygadas – has shot a damning indictment of contemporary Mexico, capturing its institutionalised corruption, its endemic cruelty.

From The Guardian • May 16, 2013

It was clear now that Jay didn’t want us to get far apart like I thought he did when he wanted Tony to be his blood brother.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce