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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 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
The man's identity has not been released as his next-of-kin has not yet been located and identified.
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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.
Whatever folks are craving, Haider said there’s something for everyone.
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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.
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.
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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.