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Examples of kin in a Sentence
Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
Then Maximus—the Daniel of their group, an orphan who’s visited for the first time that night by either extraterrestrial kin or schizophrenic hallucinations—complicates this assertion of cosmic cohesion by slipping out of his friends’ grasp.
—Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
Parents, grandparents, siblings and other kin of some of the 22 people killed last year at Robb Elementary streamed into the park, embracing the Olivers and each other.
—Mike Baker, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
Daryl eventually finds his zombified kin, and can barely bring himself to put him down.
—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2023
Of the almost 50,000 under the payments under the current VCF, around 31,000 went to the responders or their spouses or other kin.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 July 2023
This is a problem for archivists and institutions, but also for individuals who might want to preserve the digital belongings of their dead kin.
—Tamara Kneese, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2023
What’s left after RST is unleashed is a symbol of what has been done, is still being done, to Retta and Kenny and their kin.
—Noah Berlatsky, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
Timothy Treadwell, an environmentalist and a filmmaker who lived with brown bears in Alaska for thirteen summers, loved the bears, thought of them as his friends, his kith and his kin.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
Morgan Meis, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
The Oscar winners have been friends for half a century and their kin span generations.
—Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
As for the common people, geographical and social isolation is sharply mitigated by modern transportation networks, as well as larger scale non-kin institutions such as the Christian church.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 Aug. 2010
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Word History
Noun
Middle English, from Old English cynn; akin to Old High German chunni race, Latin genus birth, race, kind, Greek genos, Latin gignere to beget, Greek gignesthai to be born
Adjective
attributive use of kin entry 1
Noun suffix
Middle English, from Middle Dutch -kin; akin to Old High German -chīn, diminutive suffix
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Adjective
1597, in the meaning defined above
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“Kin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kin. Accessed 7 Dec. 2023.
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