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close relation

NOUN

sympathy

Synonyms

STRONGEST

affinity understanding unity

STRONG

accord agreement alliance attraction commiseration concord congeniality connection correspondence harmony rapport union

WEAK

fellow feeling mutual attraction mutual fondness

Antonyms

STRONGEST

apathy incompatibility misunderstanding

STRONG

antagonism disagreement discord divorce separation

WEAK

disdain indifference

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“It’s very closely related to the movement that we do in tennis,” Jovic said of soccer.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2026

How did they reach these wildly different conclusions in such closely related cases?

From Slate • Jun. 29, 2026

To investigate the process, researchers compared SARS-CoV-2 with RaTG13, a closely related coronavirus that infects bats but has not been known to infect humans.

From Science Daily • Jun. 24, 2026

Velella velella, commonly known as by-the-wind sailors and closely related to the Portuguese man o' war, have been spotted on beaches across Anglesey, Gwynedd and Tenby.

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2026

In particular, the most distinctive Bantu languages, and the non-Bantu Niger-Congo languages most closely related to Bantu languages, are packed into a tiny area of Cameroon and adjacent eastern Nigeria.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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