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a person connected with another by blood or marriage
we both were surprised to learn that we are distant cousins
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Recent Examples of cousins
Young, impassioned volunteer Omar (Mataz Malhees) first answers the call from Rajab, who’s hiding from IDF soldiers in the wreckage of her car, surrounded by the dead bodies of her uncle, aunt and four cousins.
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Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
Unlike our billionaire rankings, this list includes family fortunes, including those shared among extended families such as that of Kwek Leng Beng and his cousins.
—Jane Ho, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Rajab and her family had been fleeing Gaza City when their vehicle was shelled, killing her uncle, aunt, and three cousins.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025
With her guidance, Blair also set up the LLC with some of his cousins.
—Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
Thus far, cousins who used to tease her about her lovey have reached out via social media in disbelief at the bear’s disappearance.
—Olivia Cyrus
august 8, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Coral’s results also lend credence to a recent NVIDIA research thesis that small models, when used in the right way, can rival or even outperform their larger cousins.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2025
Complicated family history But who was the common ancestor of all these hominin cousins?
—ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2025
Her mother was a nurse, her aunts and distant cousins all nurses and maids and cleaners scattered everywhere from Jeddah to Singapore to Rome.
—Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
Unlike our billionaire rankings, this list includes family fortunes, including those shared among extended families such as that of Kwek Leng Beng and his cousins.
—Jane Ho, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Rajab and her family had been fleeing Gaza City when their vehicle was shelled, killing her uncle, aunt, and three cousins.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025
With her guidance, Blair also set up the LLC with some of his cousins.
—Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
Thus far, cousins who used to tease her about her lovey have reached out via social media in disbelief at the bear’s disappearance.
—Olivia Cyrus
august 8, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Coral’s results also lend credence to a recent NVIDIA research thesis that small models, when used in the right way, can rival or even outperform their larger cousins.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2025
Complicated family history But who was the common ancestor of all these hominin cousins?
—ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2025
Her mother was a nurse, her aunts and distant cousins all nurses and maids and cleaners scattered everywhere from Jeddah to Singapore to Rome.
—Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cousins
Noun
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Close relatives of the federal official who has accused a Federal Reserve governor of improperly claiming primary residence on two properties have declared the same status on two homes in two different states, public records show.—
Marisa Taylor,
Freep.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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After Othram provided those leads to authorities, a follow-up investigation led to the victim’s potential relatives, said the company.—
David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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As for Cohen’s next novel, Beautiful Losers, which was set in an apartment in Montreal as a bereaved and lust‑tormented narrator reconstructs his relations with the dead, there was a sharp divide of opinion internally at Viking.—
Paul Slovak
September 8,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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Song Seok-ha, 67, who has been protesting every day for five years near the US Embassy in Seoul to call for a stronger US-South Korea alliance, was concerned about long-term damage to relations.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Cousins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cousins. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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