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Recent Examples of extended family
Hayley will be deeply missed by her parents, siblings, extended family, and friends.
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Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Critics loved how this interplay with extended family members highlights themes of generational tension, gender expectations and tradition in Thai-Chinese households.
—Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Evie and her sister didn’t have much in the way of extended family.
—Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
Your family, your immediate family, your extended family – there are changes in life.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2025
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Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Critics loved how this interplay with extended family members highlights themes of generational tension, gender expectations and tradition in Thai-Chinese households.
—Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Evie and her sister didn’t have much in the way of extended family.
—Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
Your family, your immediate family, your extended family – there are changes in life.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for extended family
Recent Examples of Synonyms for extended family
Noun
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Chastain portrayed Celia Foote in the drama based on Kathryn Stockett's novel of the same name about a white journalist chronicling the lives of Black maids working for white households in 1960s Mississippi.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Sep. 2025
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Spread across about 130 hectares, which is about 185 football fields, the farm is estimated to generate a total of 100 GWh of electricity annually and power more than 18,000 average Swedish households.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In the gambling business, the folks who generate the profits for the house are — not to put too fine a point on it — the losers.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
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Features of the mansion and the other priciest metro Phoenix houses to sell in include a 20-car garage, billiards room, pool with a slide and leathered granite countertops.—
Lorenzino Estrada,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Extended family.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extended%20family. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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