kinship
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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
They are also using kinship DNA provided by his family to search international databases for potential matches.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
Do you feel any kinship with bands that broke out in a different era but have stayed relevant to some degree?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
That kinship is what makes Coppola’s first documentary, “Marc by Sofia,” such a thrill — and also what occasionally holds the film back.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026
Then he would remind us that there was a brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that not even time could break.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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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
Tacitus' indefinite expression, "by families and kinships," is explained by the fact that at his time the gens had long ceased to be a living body in Rome.
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, Friedrich
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