clan
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The Weston family, worth billions, is a Canadian-British food-business clan that traces its roots to a bakery business founded in Toronto in 1882.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
While King Oyo inherited the crown from his father, Mwanguhya told the BBC "the crown has moved to a different line within the ruling clan".
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Very little of this was understood 30 years ago, explains Robert Kolker in “The Vanishing Family,” his sensitive saga of one affected clan whose members began falling ill in the 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Today, Carter is simply family, part of the Smiths’ extended clan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The Marali family was a huge clan, scattered over many of the nearby villages.
From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed
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But with the country deeply divided between rival clans, and much of it under the control of Islamist insurgent group Al-Shabaab, there has been little progress on organising elections beyond a few localised pockets.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
But it didn’t go down well with many Sinaloan clans, enabling the Mayitos to make their own alliances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Palestinians in the central Gazan city of Deir al-Balah voted on lists of candidates that were seen as associated with various clans and political groups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
The Ming family was one of several clans that ran Myanmar's sleepy town of Laukkaing, close to the border with China.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026
The big gunter clans had once again banded together to launch a coordinated attack on the Sixers’ forces.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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