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association, board, chamber, club, college, congress, consortium, council, fellowship, fraternity, guild (also gild), institute, institution, league, order, organization, society, sodality
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There needs to be a strong stress on brotherhood and living in peace. — Washington Post, "Decades after fleeing, Kashmiri Hindus still fear going back," 5 Sep. 2019 Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon joins forces with an Italian scientist to prevent an ancient brotherhood’s plot against the Vatican from coming to fruition. — Los Angeles Times, "Movies on TV this week Sept. 1 - 7, 2019: John Wayne in ‘The Searchers’ and more," 30 Aug. 2019 There’s not really any competition or selfishness, just a brotherhood. — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, "Damien Harris hits the ground running with New England Patriots," 18 Aug. 2019 Meanwhile, on Monday, Mexico's president urged the promotion of universal brotherhood. — Haley Ott, CBS News, "Mexican government demands protection for Mexicans in the U.S. in wake of El Paso shooting," 5 Aug. 2019 Orbán is smart enough to know that Hunnic hordes and pan-Turkic brotherhoods are useful ways of maintaining his hegemony through popular enthusiasm. — Jacob Mikanowski, Harper's magazine, "The Call of the Drums," 21 July 2019 As a member of the Roman Catholic brotherhood, Tabichi wore a plain floor-length brown robe to receive the award presented by Dubai’s Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. — Aya Batrawy, The Seattle Times, "Kenyan who gave earnings to poor wins $1M teacher prize," 25 Mar. 2019 Doug Coe, the purported leader of the Fellowship, had long expressed admiration for the ways in which leaders engendered loyalty through brotherhood, citing Hitler, Mao, and the Mafia as inspiration. — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, "The Patriarchal Allure of The Family," 14 Aug. 2019 Macneal deftly paints her fictional heroine into the colorful lives of the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, those radical reformers, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who strove to reinvigorate the arts. — Ron Charles, Dallas News, "'The Doll Factory' is a page-turning Victorian thriller," 13 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'brotherhood.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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