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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
Behind closed doors, network execs cursed the growing power, and seeming lack of accountability, of streamers, while many of those at Netflix, YouTube, Prime Video and their kin still saw their linear counterparts as dinosaurs nearing extinction.
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Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
12 Oct. 2025
Sonia, Sunny, and their kin — people who can afford to vacation in Europe, though only after being humiliatingly interrogated to get a visa — are case studies in uneven privilege.
After news hit of Ozer’s Safehaven embezzlement indictment in 2024, Ozer spent months reassuring folks that the charges were all going to go away.
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Steve Belanger,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
Curated by the same folks who present the Oscars, the museum, which opened in 2021, showcases rare props, iconic costumes, and original scripts through meticulous, behind-the-scenes exhibits that reveal how movies are made.
Sabres goalie Alex Lyon had about as much chance of stopping the shot as an extra-large pepperoni and bacon stood of surviving a Friday night in the Kloke household.
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Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
Based on an earlier analysis of the new tax law by the nonpartisan think tank, Tax Policy Center, all income groups on average benefit from the tax cuts, but high-income households benefit the most.
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