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Recent Examples of brotherly
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter ahead of TIFF, Cox and Cumming opened up about playing against type, returning to Scotland, and finding the humor and heart in a story about brotherly love.
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
To them, Belly’s brotherly ménage à trois and altar-dumping story is interesting, sure, but no more selfish and reckless than Celine, for instance, who sleeps with married men as a hobby.
—Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
In keeping with the sibling revelry on display all night, at one point Shultz sauntered over to older brother guitarist Brad Shultz and gave him a sweet brotherly shove after a bit of teasing.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 29 Aug. 2025
Despite how badly things were left between Conrad and Jeremiah in the latest episode, their brotherly bond will endure, Briney says.
—Julia Moore, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
To them, Belly’s brotherly ménage à trois and altar-dumping story is interesting, sure, but no more selfish and reckless than Celine, for instance, who sleeps with married men as a hobby.
—Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
In keeping with the sibling revelry on display all night, at one point Shultz sauntered over to older brother guitarist Brad Shultz and gave him a sweet brotherly shove after a bit of teasing.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 29 Aug. 2025
Despite how badly things were left between Conrad and Jeremiah in the latest episode, their brotherly bond will endure, Briney says.
—Julia Moore, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brotherly
fraternal
Adjective
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And the trickster god Elegba, Orisha of the crossroads, stands between them, a wily ex-con buddy of Oshoosi’s — not bad, not good, a Mephistophelean drifter who secretly longs for the fraternal intimacy that is his friend’s by birthright.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
11 Sep. 2025
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Along with their businesses, communities lost newspapers, fraternal halls, and churches that those profits had helped sustain.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Brotherly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brotherly. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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