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[kin-ship] / ˈkɪn ʃɪp /


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A new legal right to unpaid time off work after suffering a bereavement will cover step and half relatives, as well as foster, kinship care and adoptive relationships, the government has said.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

She points to the unspoken kinship that forms when Black fans who love heavier guitar music find each other in white-dominated crowds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

As such, when I saw that Crystal Palace had the lowest number of subscribers on its subreddit of any side in the league, I felt a natural kinship.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026

This place has an odd, accommodating kinship with these prehistoric monsters, a willingness to coexist rather than eliminate what would kill us.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

Peter had reached a level of success I could only dream about at the time, but I still felt an instant kinship with this bald-headed, brown-skinned, petite, wiry fencing elder.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

Because the operations at most milk banks make it difficult for kinships to be traced, most religious scholars think that the banks "should be treated like breastfeeding," Ghaly says.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2021

Dobyns has forged deep friendships in the Native-American medicine communities over the years, says Amos, kinships she has been generous enough to share with Amos.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2017

But other structures bear strong kinships in these animals, too.

From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2013

Seeing it in one fell swoop requires reserves of concentration in the viewer — and possibly a flow chart of the people and their complex and shifting kinships.

From Time ● Aug. 22, 2011

But perhaps the strongest of the influences which unite to assure the psychological kinships of the jumping-off places is that of the Aromatic Shop.

From The Forest by Stewart Edward White




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