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brotherhood

[bruhth-er-hood] / ˈbrʌð ərˌhʊd /


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“He’s done a great job at doing that and it feels like a full brotherhood here.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

"It's really, really difficult. So that's why we tried to build a team spirit and a brotherhood."

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

We have like a brotherhood and a friendship in real life.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2026

There’s so much decorum among judges, this infamous brotherhood of the robe, that keeps them from directly criticizing one another.

From Slate May 18, 2026

Odd that the homeless children, the silt of war frenzy, could initiate me into the brotherhood of man.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

The leaders of Senegal’s influential Muslim brotherhoods have urged protesters to show restraint in the days ahead.

From Seattle Times Mar. 8, 2021

The leaders of Senegal’s influential Muslim brotherhoods on Sunday urged protesters to show restraint in the days ahead.

From Washington Times Mar. 8, 2021

Jia Zhangke takes an empathetic look at criminal brotherhoods in China in his new gangster film Ash Is Purest White.

From Slate Apr. 4, 2019

Gulen and his followers have advocated a conservative Islamic lifestyle mixed with Turkish nationalism, high education standards and — unlike many Muslim brotherhoods — a selectively pro-Western worldview.

From New York Times Apr. 13, 2017

He spake of the cults of the forest demons, whose wails could be heard in the bush when the brotherhoods met in convocation.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson




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