kith

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Recent Examples of kith Timothy Treadwell, an environmentalist and a filmmaker who lived with brown bears in Alaska for thirteen summers, loved the bears, thought of them as his friends, his kith and his kin. Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023 All familiar sights around Christmas, when the social obligations of the festive season draw people together with their kith and kin. Elisabeth Blagrove, Quartz, 25 Dec. 2019 According to Ms Debos, the need for France’s intervention showed that some high-ranking officers were unwilling to fight their kith and kin among the rebels. The Economist, 18 July 2019 Although Edward IV had the Lancastrian King Henry VI secretly murdered in the Tower in 1471, to close off the enemy dynasty, Richard couldn’t get away with the same thing with his own kith and kin 12 years later. Andrew Roberts, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kith
Noun
  • The man's identity has not been released as his next-of-kin has not yet been located and identified.
    Mike Darnay, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Its fragrant yellow blooms, whose production increases as the weather warms, look like a cross between those of a penstemon and a snapdragon, which are familial kin.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 14 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Whatever folks are craving, Haider said there’s something for everyone.
    Jenna Thompson April 8, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The Wall Street Journal notes that upper middle class folks are often white-collar professionals in dual-income households, who have benefitted from women’s advances in the workforce and rising wages in fields like software engineering.
    Sam Klebanov, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • There could be challenges that pop up during this time, like needing to handle family problems or stepping in to help one of your kindreds.
    Kyle Thomas, People.com, 1 June 2025
  • The French researchers, working with another team in Montreal, Canada, identified a specific problem mutation in this kindred.
    Markham Heid, Time, 6 Dec. 2022
Noun
  • Rising prices could pressure household budgets and derail consumer spending if Americans pull back on discretionary purchases, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee told CBS News earlier this month.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • More than one in three West Virginia households is considered energy burdened, spending more than 6% of their income on electricity and other fuel costs.
    ABC News, ABC News, 9 Apr. 2026

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“Kith.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kith. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.

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