close-knit
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Close-knit communities with relatively self-sufficient economies disintegrated, leaving the newly dispossessed with wage work as the only option for survival.
From Scientific American • May 31, 2023
Close-knit communities are keeping each others’ spirits up by seeing each others’ faces in pixel form and singing together, headphones in their ears.
From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2020
The essentials: Close-knit thirtysomethings find their open-mindedness unraveling when they allow a newcomer on one of their weekend country retreats.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2019
Close-knit tenants of a Brooklyn apartment building known as “The Village” share life’s ups and downs in this new multi-character drama.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2019
Close-knit and wise in the ways of the capital, they took last week's events in stride.
From Time Magazine Archive
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