fraternal

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When community members aren’t arguing, the vibe is generally extremely supportive and fraternal.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

Two sisters who believed they were fraternal twins discovered they were in fact identical - after one of them was diagnosed with leukaemia at the age of 23.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

The sense that firefighters are retreating behind a fraternal code of silence is fueling an intense anger among Palisadians.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Both identical and fraternal twins develop in the same womb and are usually raised in similar circumstances in the same household.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025

In 1924, Hermann Werner Siemens, the German eugenicist and Nazi sympathizer, proposed a twin study that advanced Galton’s proposal by meticulously separating identical twins from fraternal twins.*

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee