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Recent Examples of kithTimothy 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 They were being held to the same standards as the rest of the world, forced to confront political realities that were previously beyond their kith.—Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2020 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
Hess was already perennially online, but misfortune—and its kin, helplessness—turned her pregnancy and her son’s young life into a mystery to be understood.
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Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
5 May 2025
The two Meyerson cousins, though distantly related to Rabbi Anne, remain close with their California kin.
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Hollace Ava Weiner,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 Apr. 2025
The Hispanic population demonstrates growing involvement in real estate through investment properties since 9.5% of Spanish-speaking households owned such properties in 2022.
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Cheryl Robinson,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2025
Each state was ranked by the average income of its top 5% of households.
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