near relative
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“A near relative to the famous Red Jacket and of the present Chief of the six nations Cherokees.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2019
It may be my favorite Le Sia sauce, although it’s a close call between that and its near relative, “numbing and spicy,” which is propelled into tingling ma la territory by Sichuan peppercorns.
From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2018
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
My wife has been very much impressed by what she terms a marvellous likeness between you and—and a very near relative of hers whom she had lost sight of for a long while.
From Mr. Marx's Secret by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
