family unit
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But their shared lust for adventure created a prickly tension within their family unit, a strain between their passion and parentage that sits at the documentary’s emotional center.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026
"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
Ribeiro leaned into their on-screen chemistry as a family unit when creating a sizzle reel to get financing for the project.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
Now, the tight-knit family unit that entered the Avignon tribunal last September is no more.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025
Someone who she hoped had been adequately and fairly punished, and who had been restored to his place: to his job, his home, his family unit.
From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
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