cousin
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The month before Muzirikazi left with his cousin Dylan Goodho, Zimbabwe announced 15 nationals had been killed on "foreign battlefields".
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
I don’t know if “anxiety” is the right word, but it’s a close cousin to whatever the word would be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
“It’s not that we won’t do private jobs; we can, but we won’t carry sacks of cement,” said Satish Chandra Mehta, Mehta’s cousin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
This gauge is based on the difference between the yield on a 5-year Treasury note and its inflation-protected cousin.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
But here I am, with a mailbox that Jonah can no longer bear to be in the same house with, a cousin who’s not speaking to me, and an overuse injury that’s my own fault.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
When I looked into the crowd, I saw my cousins and best friend I’d played with as a child, all of whom had driven in from Burbank, Thousand Oaks and Santa Clarita.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The children met their aunts, uncles and cousins.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Mohammed, a 27-year-old plumber, similarly feared for his two cousins, aged 18 and 22, who managed to cross into Ceuta.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
She still urges friends and cousins to apply for MTA jobs because of the benefits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
When Nhamo went to sleep with her arms around the mealie bag, she missed their constant muttering almost as much as the breathing of her cousins in the girls’ hut.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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It's All in the Family
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