extended families

plural of extended family
as in households
those who live as a family in one house their extended family includes a grandmother and widowed aunt

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Noun
  • The inflation hammering households is primarily due to the weak yen that the Abe government orchestrated with negative interest rates and massive monetary easing, causing a surge in energy and food prices that pinches voters’ wallets.
    Jeff Kingston, Time, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Instead Takaichi has promised cash handouts and tax rebates to help households.
    Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Already this season, nine houses have collapsed along the Outer Banks of North Carolina in rough surf and damaging waves as a pair of hurricanes, Humberto and Imelda, stirred up the ocean well offshore.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Some of the houses, into which refugees entered in my hometown, had been vacated by frightened Jewish citizens with foreign passports who could not envisage living in a non-apartheid country.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
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“Extended families.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extended%20families. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.

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