siblings

plural of sibling

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Recent Examples of siblings Or maybe his creepy siblings are in the building also and soon Negan will be in the most terrifying encounter of his life. Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026 McCarthy can’t ever remember playing a basketball or baseball game without his parents and siblings in the stands. Mike Defabo, New York Times, 27 July 2026 As the oldest child of the Parton clan, Willadeene was often seen as a maternal figure by her younger siblings. Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 27 July 2026 Following their mother Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, the siblings have stood by one another and made public pleas for her safety together. Giovana Gelhoren, InStyle, 27 July 2026 McGlaughlin is survived by Allyson, children Kathleen McGlaughlin and Bill Timothy McGlaughlin, siblings Jake McGlaughlin, Kathleen Gillespie, Dick McGlaughlin, Tom McGlaughlin and Ed McGlaughlin, and grandson Beryl Lovejoy McGlaughlin. Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2026 Ideally, psychiatrists and psychologists take into account interviews with a patient’s teachers and parents—or, in the case of adults, their siblings and friends. Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026 These parents stay with their children at George Mark and can bring the patient's siblings, too, to soak in their last days together. Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 20 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for siblings
Noun
  • Our relationships with men as wives, sisters, daughters, is complicated.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 21 July 2026
  • Survivors include his daughter, Kami; his son, Matt; his grandsons, Chase and Wyatt; and his sisters, Carole and Colleen.
    Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 21 July 2026
Noun
  • By late adolescence, my relatives’ narrative was on how much agency enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue had in shaping their future.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 July 2026
  • During that news conference, the room was filled with McCarthy’s relatives.
    Mike DeFabo, New York Times, 27 July 2026
Noun
  • Knappman, who lives in California, coordinated with his sister in Louisiana and a pair of cousins from Maine and North Carolina to purchase a new headstone engraved with Horan’s name and the dates of her birth and death.
    John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2026
  • Scientists have long proposed that modern Homo sapiens outcompeted their robust cousins through sheer intelligence.
    Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 20 July 2026
Noun
  • Chadwick Boseman’s brothers filed a petition last week seeking control of the late actor’s estate, accusing their brother’s widow of mismanagement and failing to distribute the assets.
    Lindsay Good, NBC news, 23 July 2026
  • The brothers worked the deep weed edges with large spoons, making long casts and hopping them off bottom.
    Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 23 July 2026
Noun
  • Both countries also opened a second cluster last week focused on foreign relations, security and defense policies, as well as trade policy, development cooperation and humanitarian aid.
    ABC News, ABC News, 21 July 2026
  • The move underscores the increasingly important role AI chips play in diplomatic relations and international politics.
    Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026

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“Siblings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/siblings. Accessed 29 Jul. 2026.

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