siblings

noun

plural of sibling
as in sisters
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 His siblings have also poured money into left-leaning groups. — Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026 Raised in Sydney with four siblings, Zada has filmmaking in his blood. — Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 2 Oct. 2026 Carrie and her two older siblings rode the school bus each morning. — Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026 He was adopted by Paul and Kay Goessling and had an idyllic childhood in Missouri, well loved and raised with siblings. — Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026 The hair care brand, launched by siblings Akash and Nikita Mehta in 2020, has appointed Cécile Budge to the top post. — Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2026 At the core of the siblings’ relationship, there’s a love that’s still clean and pure. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 1 Oct. 2026 Most of the siblings died of similar ailments, following similar patterns, that experts said could have been resolved with interventions as simple as insulin, antibiotics or a supply of oxygen. — Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 1 Oct. 2026 And nowhere is that fact clearer than Castle Leoch, where not just the Scots are in disarray, not just Clan MacKenzie, but the MacKenzie siblings. — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for siblings
  1. sisters
  2. relatives
  3. cousins
  4. brothers
  5. relations
Noun
  • Hannie was captured, tortured, and murdered by the Nazis in the final months of the war, but never snitched on her sisters.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026
  • William warns Jake about witches getting together and being judgmental, and Jake has a line about how witches work together with their coven sisters, but warlocks deal with their problems on their own.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of sisters
Noun
  • The participants include people who have been exposed to the disease in this outbreak, among them health workers and patients' relatives.
    — CONSTANT SAME BAGALWA, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
  • The participants include people who have been exposed to the disease in this outbreak, among them health workers and patients’ relatives.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of relatives
Noun
  • Most of his cousins have not been able to buy a house or start a family deep into their 30s.
    — Jacqueline Ganun, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026
  • The mall brands your older cousins grew up with aren’t just hanging on.
    — Ashley Lynch, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of cousins
Noun
  • With the brothers especially, there’s a little bit too much telling us via dialogue, rather than showing us with full scenes.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026
  • But campus police made no arrests, and the district attorney, Matthew Van Houten, initially declined to pursue charges against the seven fraternity brothers.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of brothers
Noun
  • China-Japan relations have come under heavy strain since Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told parliament in November last year that Japan could get militarily involved in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
    — Anniek Bao,Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Questions remain over how a citizen of Oman, a country which does not have formal diplomatic relations with Israel, was authorized to co-pilot a plane bound for Tel Aviv, despite Israel’s strict security regulations.
    — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of relations

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“Siblings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/siblings. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.

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