variants or kinfolks

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Recent Examples of kinfolk As one of the few Black women making waves in Nashville, Adell notes that the presence of her kinfolk in the Country crowd is increasing – and always appreciated. Essence, 16 Dec. 2024 The people helping to mold those youngsters into thriving, growing girls and boys, their protectors and pillars of strength, are mothers, and grandparents, and nonbiological kinfolk — in some cases, even the D.C. government. Colbert I. King, Washington Post, 14 June 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for kinfolk
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people
Plural Noun
  • Pace put different people through the paces of different things on different equipment and surfaces, ranging from some beginner movements to some rather acrobatic moves by a woman visiting from South Korea that looked a lot like gymnastics.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Conversely, people who live in an arid climate might find that dust builds up quickly, especially around doorways and windows, which are common entry points for outside dirt, requiring more frequent sweeping.
    Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Kinfolk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kinfolk. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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