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a person connected with another by a common parent
I asked her if she had any siblings.
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Recent Examples of siblings
For Jones and his sisters, foster care was a soft place to land, and soon his grandparents stepped in, eventually adopting the siblings.
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Libby Smith, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
All of the key players involved in the agreement came up through British reality TV – the Thompson siblings and Libbey were on Made in Chelsea and Wicks on The Only Way is Essex.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 27 Jan. 2026
Mensah grew up in extreme poverty, living with his mother Naomi and three siblings in low-income housing and relying on food stamps and church food banks.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
Boy gets twin siblings after an eight-year wait After an eight-year wait to become a big brother, a Florida boy got a huge surprise when his mom showed him her ultrasound photos.
—Ronnie Li, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
According to The Independent, Brooklyn, and his three siblings, Romeo, Cruz and Harper Beckham, all had their birth names registered with the Intellectual Property Office in 2017 by Victoria.
—Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Although the couple later divorced, Alysa Liu and her siblings consider Qingxin as their mother.
—Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 26 Jan. 2026
The younger brother of a man shot celebrating his birthday in the Bronx witnessed the slaying and was wounded by the gunman too, the siblings’ heartbroken mother revealed Monday.
—Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2026
The cute siblings were seen dressed in twinning pink bomber jackets for the occasion, matching their mom's sweeping pink gown.
—Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
Libby Smith, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
All of the key players involved in the agreement came up through British reality TV – the Thompson siblings and Libbey were on Made in Chelsea and Wicks on The Only Way is Essex.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 27 Jan. 2026
Mensah grew up in extreme poverty, living with his mother Naomi and three siblings in low-income housing and relying on food stamps and church food banks.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
Boy gets twin siblings after an eight-year wait After an eight-year wait to become a big brother, a Florida boy got a huge surprise when his mom showed him her ultrasound photos.
—Ronnie Li, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
According to The Independent, Brooklyn, and his three siblings, Romeo, Cruz and Harper Beckham, all had their birth names registered with the Intellectual Property Office in 2017 by Victoria.
—Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Although the couple later divorced, Alysa Liu and her siblings consider Qingxin as their mother.
—Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 26 Jan. 2026
The younger brother of a man shot celebrating his birthday in the Bronx witnessed the slaying and was wounded by the gunman too, the siblings’ heartbroken mother revealed Monday.
—Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2026
The cute siblings were seen dressed in twinning pink bomber jackets for the occasion, matching their mom's sweeping pink gown.
—Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for siblings
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In the film, which scored Grand Prix at Cannes, two sisters reunite with their absentee father, a movie director who wants to make a film about their family.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
8 Jan. 2026
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The drama ignites following the sisters’ mother’s wake, with the abrupt return of their estranged father, Gustav (Skarsgård), an acclaimed but aging director.—
Robert Lang,
Deadline,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Harriet Wallace, who works for a Nashville social services agency, said police and firefighters were visiting homes to check on older adults whose relatives couldn't reach them by phone.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Jan. 2026
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The strained awkwardness of Adelina and Alban’s gestures of generosity underscore the class disparity between the city dwellers and their relatives.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Jan. 2026
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Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson housing projects were built and black folks settled in, dreaming of moving in with their better-off cousins who lived near Lenox Avenue.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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After the Holocaust, only my father and two cousins remained; three people out of 700.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The drama, which stars Will Poulter and Noah Centineo as brothers who are in drug recovery together, was shot in a real-life drug court in Ohio.—
Antonio Ferme,
Variety,
26 Jan. 2026
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The brothers met victims at nightclubs, parties and on dating apps, and recruited others for trips to ritzy locales, paying for their flights and lodging at high-end hotels or luxe vacation rentals before drugging and raping them, prosecutors said.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
26 Jan. 2026
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The duo’s departure leaves Japan without any pandas for the first time in more than five decades, at a time when relations between Asia’s two biggest economies are at their lowest point in years.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
25 Jan. 2026
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Over the subsequent stories, Goodman crafts subtle investigations of the relations between siblings, the fine blend of anxiety and pride parents feel for their offspring, and the bemused affection an aunt or uncle might feel for their aimless nieces or haphazard nephews.—
Chloe Schama,
Vogue,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Siblings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/siblings. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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