1
as in clan
a group of persons who come from the same ancestor
the Adams family made remarkable contributions to American life for more than two centuries
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2
as in kind
one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic
the flute, the clarinet, the oboe, and other members of the woodwind family
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Recent Examples of family
His fingerprints are all over the 21st-century Big Inventive Novel, with its sentient raindrops (Elif Shafak), its melodramatic families (Kiran Desai), its metamorphoses of race (Mohsin Hamid) and history (Marlon James).
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Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
Those multiple layers are what drew in Kłuskiewicz, who says the resulting series mixes genres including disaster, thriller, character and family drama along with exploring the event via different precincts.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
The Gerbi family also controls the trendy Paris retailer Merci, a rambling concept shop that opened in 2009 with a charitable mission.
—Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2025
Xolo Maridueña is jumping from one Netflix family friendly hit to another.
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025
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Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
Those multiple layers are what drew in Kłuskiewicz, who says the resulting series mixes genres including disaster, thriller, character and family drama along with exploring the event via different precincts.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
The Gerbi family also controls the trendy Paris retailer Merci, a rambling concept shop that opened in 2009 with a charitable mission.
—Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2025
Xolo Maridueña is jumping from one Netflix family friendly hit to another.
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for family
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Anya Taylor-Joy, in her film debut as the family's teenage daughter, appears to be the center of the escalating occurrences, as the clan begins to splinter.—
Dennis Perkins,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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It was previously announced that Andrew would be excluded from Christmas celebrations with the rest of the Windsor clan.—
Max Foster,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
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In March 2023, the company launched a pilot production line in South Korea, the first of its kind, and began producing prototype solid-state batteries by the end of the year.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Nov. 2025
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Those small victories brought hope, the kind that makes every extra day feel like a gift.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
2 Nov. 2025
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Under her plan, the county’s network of Live Well centers would be prime sites to house clinics and pharmacies for those unable to access public health care coverage.—
Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Nov. 2025
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The novella is a haunted house, dual point of view ride where the metaphors from the top down are consistently delivered.—
Amber McBride,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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The campaign reprises and expands the concept of the collection’s look book images unveiled earlier this year, which saw Michele’s tribe pictured on a bed, mainly sleeping but also occasionally playing the guitar, doing a crossword puzzle, taking selfies or having a snack.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
6 Nov. 2025
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Federal land isn’t taxable, and the government holds most reservation land in trust for Native tribes, so it can’t be taxed, either.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
6 Nov. 2025
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Microsoft unveiled a new category of PC that features generative artificial intelligence tools built into Windows, the company's world-leading operating system.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
5 Nov. 2025
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Unless the category could be brought under control, the excess threatened to self-propagate.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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But, at a moment when big narrative audio studios are shuttering, loads of people are being laid off and fewer documentary series are being made, this sentence really struck a nerve in the industry of folks who produce, write, edit and sound design longform narrative audio.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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And in a recent court filing officials say that could take weeks or even months, especially in states with older systems for folks to get the money on their EBT cards.—
The NPR Network,
NPR,
6 Nov. 2025
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The organization taps a multidisciplinary group of physicians, scientists, chemists, engineers, epidemiologists, economists, psychologists, statisticians, sociologists, and community members to turn scientific discovery into actionable knowledge.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
26 Oct. 2025
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More on why environmental groups are concerned.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
26 Oct. 2025
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Domestic violence is a painful reality afflicting too many households in this country, which makes the words and actions of the current administration so egregious and hurtful.—
Gwen Moore,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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But with Neo stepping into the household and taking on labor like housekeeping, job-seekers may have to compete with AI innovations creeping into the blue-collar world.—
Jessica Coacci,
Fortune,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Family.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/family. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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