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cousin

noun as in family relation

Strongest match

Weak match

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Nearly a dozen of my cousins left their native-born countries to come to the U.S. and eventually naturalize.

In Act 2, which spans about three years in 55 minutes, the cousins work their way back from the painful discovery that the creation of an alternative world through art cannot alone solve terrible problems.

And now it’s grown to a point where we got multiple cousins going.

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"Today we had an inset day so I played Roblox and spoke to my cousin who lives far away," she said.

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In high school, I used to tell people Pitbull was my cousin.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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