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
"My mum would do anything to keep us at home all the time," he says of their strong family unit and her refusal to accept rent.
From BBC • Jan. 18, 2025
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
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
