kissing cousins

plural of kissing cousin

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Noun
  • Volatility has returned to Wall Street amid rising US-China trade tensions, concerns about historically expensive stocks and brewing trouble in the banking industry.
    John Towfighi, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Cracking the trillion-dollar threshold would vault Walmart into a rare group of stocks, one that remains overwhelmingly dominated by technology names, Bloomberg News reported.
    Serenah McKay, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Economic impact The Big Sugar Gravel and Little Sugar Mountain Bike races together brought 7,200 visitor trips to Northwest Arkansas in 2024, according to a study published by Daniel Larson of the University of Oklahoma Department of Health and Exercise Science.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The film was very much an authorized project, with director Joseph Kosinski and his crew filming at several races and F1’s (and its corporate sponsors’) branding visible throughout the film.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • With nearly one-third of Los Angeles County's 10 million residents being foreign-born, the declaration has significant social and economic implications, especially for immigrant and mixed-status families.
    Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
  • If the president had not wasted time floating perverse ideas about real-estate opportunities in Gaza, thousands of Palestinian lives might have been saved, and more of the Israeli hostages would be in the bosom of their families.
    Bobby Ghosh, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And then the English joined in, claiming that Joseph of Arimathea brought the holy grail containing the blood and sweat of the crucified Christ to Glastonbury.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The university’s recent efforts in using real-time analysis of digital medical records to predict sepsis, a deadly blood infection, in emergency department patients have garnered significant national attention.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The answers to these questions are the subject of an exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts of close to 100 works — primarily contemporary — by 62 Anishinaabe artists from 21 tribes from Michigan and the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada.
    Jane L. Levere, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The 14 remaining castaways morphed into two tribes of seven, with the original Hina holding a majority alliance in one tribe, while the original Uli held a majority in the other.
    Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • These houses were once used for Rockport’s fishing and granite industry, and are now home to quaint shops, restaurants, and art galleries.
    Megan Margulies, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Per the brand, that search led him on a five-year journey with Italian factories that produce items for luxury fashion houses.
    Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Cryer had cousins who played football at Nebraska and TCU.
    Nick Friedell, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The cousins are encouraged that the board will allow both brothers to be eligible for parole again in three years.
    Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The various lineages of Ursuța’s work are unmistakable.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
  • While multiple human lineages have been discovered from this time, scientists have struggled to create a clear timeline.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2025
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“Kissing cousins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kissing%20cousins. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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