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They have played for years in Anaheim, in Orange County, yet they’re historically and legally yoked to L.A. in a freeway-friction cousinship to which L.A. is pretty much indifferent but one that grieves Orange County.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2022

Actually, it is something between prose and poetry that Nabokov has used�he has retained Pushkin's iambic tetrameter�and the result is a recognizable and respectable cousinship.

From Time Magazine Archive

The novel's outstanding quality is its cozy cousinship with a major American literary pattern�the novel of homecoming, of the haunting tie between small and big town.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1895 and 1896 Ellen and Rosina had made several visits to the house in Irving Street; and thus the comradely cousinship of the sixties had been maintained and re�stablished with the younger generation.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William

But to continue; you know my cousinship with her.

From The Undying Past by Sudermann, Hermann