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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
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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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The house is haunted by a family of farmers that lived and died on the land, murdered horribly by the patriarch of the family, but really, the problem is the demon that controls the mirror and its dark reflections.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The couple still live in separate houses but eat dinner together most nights.—
Duaa Eldeib,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Extended family.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extended%20family. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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