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kith

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as in kin

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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

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His exhausted kin of Gainesville, having spent the morning very much alive and the enormity of a half-decade pummeled, agreed.

— Noah White, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2026
The driver’s identity will be released by San Joaquin County coroner’s officials once next-of-kin have been notified.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of kin

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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

Definition of kindred

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In part, Sperr alleges that Kress has taken full control over Bass’ household and finances, and isolated him from lifelong friends and employees, attorneys wrote in the suit.

— Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Sep. 2026
The open-source dataset contains 11,430 real-world trajectories collected across 14 industrial and household tasks.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026

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