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Recent Examples of fraternal
Businesses that can offer video gaming include table service restaurants that serve complete meals, fraternal organizations, establishments for military veterans, and truck stops, as designated under state law.
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Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
The good times in a rom-com — the meet-cute, the courtship, the intense declarations of love — all get their moments here, just with a fraternal twist and an invaluable extension.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2025
The Knights of Columbus is a lay family fraternal organization.
—Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
Less Mormonism or Scientology than Free-Masonry or the Knights of Templar, Gnomonism is a flimsy fraternal order based on Americanized bastardizations of Medieval-ish theology.
—Jon Raymond
august 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
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Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
The good times in a rom-com — the meet-cute, the courtship, the intense declarations of love — all get their moments here, just with a fraternal twist and an invaluable extension.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2025
The Knights of Columbus is a lay family fraternal organization.
—Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
Less Mormonism or Scientology than Free-Masonry or the Knights of Templar, Gnomonism is a flimsy fraternal order based on Americanized bastardizations of Medieval-ish theology.
—Jon Raymond
august 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fraternal
Adjective
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Rana forces herself to create a soothing, familial tone.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
3 Sep. 2025
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The sisters were close enough in age and just young enough that there was a real friendship beneath the familial bond as well.—
Brittany Spanos,
Rolling Stone,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter ahead of TIFF, Cox and Cumming opened up about playing against type, returning to Scotland, and finding the humor and heart in a story about brotherly love.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
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To them, Belly’s brotherly ménage à trois and altar-dumping story is interesting, sure, but no more selfish and reckless than Celine, for instance, who sleeps with married men as a hobby.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Fraternal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fraternal. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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