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or kinfolks
as in family
a group of persons who come from the same ancestor
let's invite all our kinfolk for the holidays
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At the time, Mao Zedong let Inner Mongolians keep the script, in part to distinguish them from kinfolk across the border.
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Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
Long, frozen winters and fleeting, lazy summers in this remote area of the country helped forge tightknit bonds — over bonfires, while fishing or snowshoeing, or in musical jam circles — between kinfolk and friends.
—Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2023
Self-defense became second nature to the British-Indian schoolboy, who organized street patrols to protect his kinfolk in Manchester.
—Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 27 June 2023
Often maintaining a certain distance from our kinfolk can help keep us together.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
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Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
Long, frozen winters and fleeting, lazy summers in this remote area of the country helped forge tightknit bonds — over bonfires, while fishing or snowshoeing, or in musical jam circles — between kinfolk and friends.
—Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2023
Self-defense became second nature to the British-Indian schoolboy, who organized street patrols to protect his kinfolk in Manchester.
—Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 27 June 2023
Often maintaining a certain distance from our kinfolk can help keep us together.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
See All Example Sentences for kinfolk
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“Kinfolk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kinfolk. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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