clan

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Recent Examples of clan The compilation clip featured lively snippets of the El Moussa clan's visit to Sin City, including outfit reveals, preparation for El Moussa's keynote speaker gig and a theatrical live show. Edward Segarra, USA Today, 11 June 2025 The father, Buddy Smart (Bryan Cranston), is the clan’s second-rate crackpot visionary, a cockeyed optimist who dresses in fuddy-duddy jackets and never knows where the next paycheck is coming from. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 June 2025 Hyannis Main Street has a mix of souvenir shopping and fun bars and restaurants, while neighboring Hyannis Port is where the Kennedy clan’s compound served as a major backdrop to Camelot. Cameron Sperance, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2025 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel is arming clans in the Gaza Strip to combat Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that Israel has been fighting for almost 20 months. Daniel Estrin, NPR, 5 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for clan
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Noun
  • Both coastal communities are popular ports, and when cruise ships arrive, the wave of visitors can outnumber the locals.
    Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 20 June 2025
  • Heather Kelly, Next PR Forbes Agency Council is an invitation-only community for executives in successful public relations, media strategy, creative and advertising agencies.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • However, six yeshivas received notifications from the state Education Department earlier this year instructing families to find other ways of educating their children and cutting off the schools’ public funding.
    Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 18 June 2025
  • Giving way Construction of a KB Home single family housing development is shown in Menifee, California, U.S., September 4, 2024.
    Sara Salinas, CNBC, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Give it another year and operators are looking at a crowd of 37.7 million customers at the end of September 2026; one more trip around the sun further diminishes the count to around 33.3 million.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 20 June 2025
  • The roar that came after his collision with Porto midfielder Ze Pedro on Thursday was deemed a foul belied the modest crowd of 31,783 inside the 72,000-seat Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
    Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Zeldin's immediate termination of some $3 billion from the Environmental and Climate Justice block program impacted 350 environmental organizations, cities and tribes that all saw their grants evaporate without warning.
    Tracy J. Wholf June 26, CBS News, 26 June 2025
  • The Pueblo tribes share a common history, as well as aspects of culture, but remain diverse peoples, speaking several different languages and dialects.
    Michael Shaikh June 25, Literary Hub, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Try mixing up their tutti-fruity pinks, golds, and crimson with a pack of white zinnia seeds.
    Josh Miller, Southern Living, 21 June 2025
  • Boumedienne is at the back of the pack, but not by much.
    Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • The property has three main villas, each with a guest residence, gardens, outdoor pool, and beach access, and a separate staff house with a total of 32,292 sq ft living space.
    Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
  • While working on the painting in a bahay kubo—a shelter made of woven bamboo—next to her house to escape the summer heat, Cajipe Endaya was captivated by how well the sawali’s texture and color matched her canvas.
    Hung Duong, Artforum, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • The most prominent of these is the Community Self-Defense Coalition, a network of more than sixty advocacy groups, including Black Men Build, the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice, and the local chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace.
    Emily Witt, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
  • While cord-cutting has resulted in some regional sports networks falling on to financial hard times in recent years, streaming services have shown increasing interest in broadcasting games.
    Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • Secure Folder has triggered a bunch of warnings given some issues in how it was deployed, those have been addressed.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • That’s particularly the case with Bondi who is the worst of the bunch. — William Opfer, Bel Air Add your voice: Respond to this piece or other Sun content by submitting your own letter.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2025

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