sister

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Recent Examples of sister The Secret Order is not going to pick up the maximalist mantle from sister series Interview With the Vampire is that its main character’s name is … Guy. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2025 Before his detention, Gómez visited Noah often at the New York City hospital where his son is currently receiving full-time care, his sister said. Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025 Marla Schaefer and her sister — their father founded the firm — had the pulse on that tween customer. Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2025 Their eight-year-old sister, Yaffa, had gone to sleep. Mosab Abu Toha, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sister
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sister
Noun
  • Advertisement Certainty becomes an issue, as well, for Noah’s brother, Sasha (Timothy Simons) and his wife, Esther (Jackie Tohn).
    Judy Berman, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • While still unconfirmed, we’re told the film follows Louise, the alcoholic mother of Mike (Hechinger) and Tommy, who takes off after a quarrel with her husband Lester — walking with her dog to the home of her brother Frank, quite a few miles away.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Valak first appears in the Conjuring universe in 2016’s The Conjuring 2, when the Warrens encounter a demon in the form of a nun.
    Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Guests have heard screams, and some have reported actually seeing a ghostly nun standing beside their bed.
    Noreen Kompanik, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Instead of disclosing her condition to her employer and circles of friends, Sickler pulled back from modeling with little explanation, thinking that the absence of her hair would certainly result in the loss of her contract.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Whenever family or friends came to visit, our first stop was always El's.
    Abby Price, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Similar to its loose setting powder sibling, Nars Light Reflecting Pressed Setting Powder locks in makeup in seconds, complete with a subtly dewy finish that keeps oil at bay without completely ditching the glow.
    Deanna Pai, Allure, 23 Oct. 2025
  • He was survived by his two siblings, his mother, and his father, who passed away 18 years later and is laid to rest next to his son.
    Alyssa N. Salcedo, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • How can a kindly, God-fearing, and ascetic novice monk compete against that?
    Karl Ove Knausgaard, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Lott is still a priest but is no longer a monk at Delbarton, nor is he affiliated with the school.
    Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • With this imagery, a terrain map can be generated for use by urban planners, or a soldier can print a copy of an image and share it with foreign mission partners on the battlefield.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Her partner's mom got OP's daughter a gift, but none of her partner's siblings did.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • They were joined by Anthony's cousin, Connor Cook, Connor's girlfriend Miley Altman, friend Paul Murdaugh and Paul's then-girlfriend, Morgan Doughty.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Sacrament revolves around two cousins from San Bernardino, Larette and Cherrise, who, along with two traveling nurses—four ICU nurses in all—are isolating in individual Mallard trailers in CamperWorld, three blocks from Our Lady of Sorrows hospital.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In July, when the United Nations put out its own plan for surging food and medicine into Gaza in the event of a cease-fire, the State Department was still hiring the people currently coordinating its Gaza relief work, the current federal employee and one of their colleagues told me.
    Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025
  • This points to a growing public health concern for younger Americans, a population also experiencing similar increases in colorectal cancer diagnoses, added Kim and colleague Aimal Khan, a colon and rectal surgery professor at Vanderbilt.
    Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025

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“Sister.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sister. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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