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sisterhood

[sis-ter-hood] / ˈsɪs tərˌhʊd /


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“Practical Magic” is a story of family and sisterhood, of the bonds that we make and the ones that we break.

From Salon Sep. 14, 2026

The gags are counterbalanced by generous helpings of schmaltz, with much talk of the power of the feminine and how sisterhood defeats all.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

For Andrea’s 40th birthday earlier this year, I repaid the favor and requested a video for her from Nell Campbell, who portrayed Columbia, in which she talked about sisterhood — and “Rocky Horror,” of course.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

It was only when the candidates were split into teams that a sisterhood began to emerge.

From BBC Jun. 19, 2026

They probably thought that being at an all-girls college was enough sisterhood for anybody.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English

In Los Angeles, Molina became a bridge between the separated sisterhoods of the Westside, South L.A. and the Eastside.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2023

One of the oldest Black sisterhoods, the Sisters of the Holy Family, formed in New Orleans in 1842 because white sisterhoods in Louisiana, including the slave-holding Ursuline order, refused to accept African Americans.

From Washington Times Apr. 30, 2022

It’s also a defining factor in the crime stories “The Kitchen” and “Hustlers,” where women form uneasy, contingent sisterhoods as a bulwark against male power and as a way to provide for their families.

From New York Times Dec. 19, 2019

Until I took my nosebleed seat in the theater, and ended up thinking about power, and femininity, and ya-ya sisterhoods up the wazoo, and feeling oddly moved.

From Washington Post Oct. 30, 2018

Those who swelled their little unarmed strength into the reckoning one of leagues, clubs, societies, sisterhoods designed to hold or withhold, move or stay put, make a way, solicit, comfort and ease.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison




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