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Recent Examples of kissing cousinWhereas the Missouri entry is known for its live entertainment backdropped by majestic beauty, its kissing cousin in Tennessee has that and a whole lot more.—David Dickstein, Oc Register, 4 June 2025 Unfortunately, the top-tier Avenir, even with its nearly $60k base price, is outclassed by competitors, including its kissing cousin, the Cadillac XT6.—Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 12 June 2023 There's kissing cousins and then there's this...—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2023 Morning glory is easy to grow from seeds in most soils and is a kissing cousin to field bindweed, one of the weed vines for later discussion.—Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2021 Rethink Overalls Get over your jumpsuit by flirting with its kissing cousin, the overall.—Vogue, 28 Mar. 2019 After weeks of teasers that started with kissing cousins and ended with the news that Ari's former Victorious costar would be in the video, the full, entire thing is here for our viewing pleasure (with tons of outfit inspiration to go around, BTW).—Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 30 Nov. 2018 McConnell is pushing for this legislative change to remove a barrier inhibiting the versatile plant some call marijuana's kissing cousin.—Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 1 May 2018
Delving into the tragic murder of Ajike Owens, a Black Florida woman, at the hands of her white neighbor Susan Lorincz, the new film from prolific documentarian Geeta Gandbhir examines issues of race, class, community, and surveillance.
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Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Oct. 2025
If your race is in the morning, eat a high-carbohydrate breakfast, such as a bagel or oatmeal.
And so the conflict between love, on one side, and faith, family, and tradition reignites, in a season that retraces the arc of its predecessor—and especially its finale—a bit too closely.
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Judy Berman,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
But the lack of transparency and due process are similar, and there are few to no guarantees of the safety of people whom ICE agents remove, often without identifying themselves, and move around without notifying the family or lawyers of the detained.
Bankruptcies, drunk driving charges, delinquent child support, foreclosures, nickel-and-dime car wrecks, suspicious slip-and-falls, dubious claims of disabilities — the stock-in- trade of a run-of-the-mill street lawyer whose law school dreams of riches had faded so dim they were almost gone.
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Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
The lightweight skeleton chassis, adjustable stock, and modular rails make long sessions more comfortable for expert marksmen.
Earlier in the day, Kardashian was spotted attending the All's Fair premiere in Paris wearing a baby blue vintage Dior by John Galliano gown from the house's Spring/Summer 2000 collection.
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Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
Seriously, the answers are like, not all that far from her house.
But Velma's leaving wasn’t the only season 3 shakeup — later in the episode, it was also revealed that Randy’s cousin Bobby (Eric Graise) had also exited the series.
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Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
Fears are mounting about trouble in the corporate lending market, with banks and their lightly regulated cousins in the investment world pointing fingers.
Joanne even gets a Jewish childhood frenemy, Abby Kaplan (Brody’s real-life partner Leighton Meester), retconning some basic familiarity with the tribe for a woman who previously claimed not to know what Shabbat was.
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Alison Herman,
Variety,
23 Oct. 2025
The Beaver Moon takes its name from early Native American tribes as well as American colonists, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac, when beavers begin sheltering in their lodges after gathering enough food to last the winter.
According to The New York Times, their family lineage traces back to General Lew Morris, who signed the Declaration of Independence, and former United States Minister to France Gouverneur Morris.
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Emily Weaver,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
The preference for sons is rooted in a patriarchal structure where boys are expected to carry on the family lineage, inherit property, and perform essential last rites for their parents.
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