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familial

[fuh-mil-yuhl, -mil-ee-uhl] / fəˈmɪl yəl, -ˈmɪl i əl /
ADJECTIVE
ancestral
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Ideally, we take those familial lessons to the workplace.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

The tension between the anti-nuclear artwork and its artists’ familial ties to the production of the very technology they reject is an enticing dance of its own.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

The council currently gives preference to those who have lived in the North East for at least a year, as well as for other local familial or employment-related reasons.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

As Joanne Kaufman writes in her review, Sara Levin’s novel builds on a whimsical premise to create “a moving meditation on loneliness, longing and familial short leashes.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

He’d had no motive for working hard academically, and he was deeply distracted by personal and familial problems and in full-blown rebellion almost every day of his high school life.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz




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