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cousin

[kuhz-uhn] / ˈkʌz ən /
NOUN
family relation
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A cousin of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said Wednesday he owned a 30 percent stake in a digital payments platform linked to cyberscams and money laundering and sanctioned by Washington.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

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

The same year, he splashed onto the big screen, portraying Ilena’s cousin in “Menace II Society.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 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

Kiki laughs, dragging her cousin toward the food.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith




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