cousin
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He said he drove the car to get away and had "no knowledge" of colliding with anyone until his cousin called him the next morning.
From BBC • May 1, 2026
His cousin started taking him to Santa Anita, where he saw Spectacular Bid win the 1980 Strub Stakes in world record time for 1¼ miles and later followed such stars as John Henry.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
"It's something to pass down to our children," her cousin Dominique Defonte added.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
If the distinguished Soviet literary scholar Olga Freidenberg is known at all in the West, it is for her 45-year correspondence with her beloved first cousin, the novelist and poet Boris Pasternak.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 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
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It's All in the Family
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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