near relative
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But it’s his pages of sharp-eyed nature writing that will stay in mind, including an encounter with “a European brown bear, a near relative of the American grizzly.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“A near relative to the famous Red Jacket and of the present Chief of the six nations Cherokees.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2019
As this description suggests, Broad City is a near relative of .
From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2014
Past molecular work by my wife and me has revealed that the low elevation white-eye inhabiting the forests far below us is not the Kolombangara white-eye’s near relative, as once believed.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2010
In summer the downy leaf-linings and the uncommon size of the leaves best distinguish this tree from its near relative, whose five leaflets are smooth throughout, small, very rarely counting seven.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
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