family unit

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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

But it was their generosity to other people outside their family unit which would make headlines in the years that followed.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024

"We suggest that vocal learning in sperm whales may not be limited to vertical transmission from adults to their kin, but that horizontal social learning from outside the immediate family unit may also be occurring."

From Science Daily • May 16, 2024

We makes us sound like a family unit, and family takes care of each other, right?

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2024

Each colony is a family unit, comprising a single, egg-laying female or queen and her many sterile daughters called workers.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd