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Recent Examples of fraternal
Along with their businesses, communities lost newspapers, fraternal halls, and churches that those profits had helped sustain.
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Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
Businesses that can offer video gaming include table service restaurants that serve complete meals, fraternal organizations, establishments for military veterans, and truck stops, as designated under state law.
—Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
The good times in a rom-com — the meet-cute, the courtship, the intense declarations of love — all get their moments here, just with a fraternal twist and an invaluable extension.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2025
The Knights of Columbus is a lay family fraternal organization.
—Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
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Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
Businesses that can offer video gaming include table service restaurants that serve complete meals, fraternal organizations, establishments for military veterans, and truck stops, as designated under state law.
—Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
The good times in a rom-com — the meet-cute, the courtship, the intense declarations of love — all get their moments here, just with a fraternal twist and an invaluable extension.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2025
The Knights of Columbus is a lay family fraternal organization.
—Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fraternal
Adjective
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This musical blends gospel and Motown with operatic stylings to illuminate the changing times of the Civil Rights era while examining social and familial issues still prevalent today.—
Meredith G. White,
AZCentral.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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Tensions arise when a struggling, idealistic poet meets his girlfriend’s family at their idyllic, hillside countryside home in Hong Sang-soo’s latest feature — a quietly profound meditation on the complexities of filial love and familial strife.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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And of course the relationship was the brotherly type, for good and bad.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
26 Sep. 2025
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The script had a lot of that [brotherly dynamic] already there.—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Sep. 2025
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“Fraternal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fraternal. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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