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
It was known to the enemy that her husband was a gallant and rising officer and a near relative of General Lee, and the plantation was a marked one.
From The Women of the Confederacy by J. L. Underwood
