family unit
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"Cumulatively not engaging in health-promotion behaviors in the postpartum period has reverberating implications for the family unit, too," Yee said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Fanning plays the titular character Margo Millet, who forms a complex family unit with parents Shyanne and Jinx, played by Pfeiffer and Offerman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026
"As a small family unit based in Lincolnshire, we couldn't imagine that somebody like Alan would be able to give us this platform to create the awareness," Victoria said.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025
Now, the tight-knit family unit that entered the Avignon tribunal last September is no more.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025
I was afraid that I might look ungrateful to my uncle, who didn’t have to take me in, if I distanced myself from the family unit.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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