extended family
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Three children, a close extended family and lots of friends.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Few if any of them will ever before have seen money like that in their extended family.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
She was raised in a huge extended family — she has 32 aunts and uncles — and remembers a house that was almost constantly full.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Over the next few years, I began to form vague ideas about the other members of our extended family.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
As the days grew increasingly tense, my mother clearly missed more and more her village and the support of her extended family.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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