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as in brother
a female connected with another person by a common parent
She plans to spend her birthday with her twin sister.
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as in nun
a member of a religious community of women
Many of the sisters in the convent participate in community outreach programs.
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as in friend
a woman with whom one feels a sense of solidarity
We started a web site for women entrepreneurs to connect with our sisters around the globe.
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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sister
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The 1949 Abducted Persons (Recovery and Restoration) Act provides the framework by which Lajo’s husband and brother return from India to get her; under that edict, India and Pakistan agreed to exchange abducted women.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
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Diane later left Aileen and her older brother, Keith, with her parents.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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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
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Guests have heard screams, and some have reported actually seeing a ghostly nun standing beside their bed.—
Noreen Kompanik,
Boston Herald,
26 Oct. 2025
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Got friends coming over for the game this weekend and there's so much to do?—
Nellah Bailey McGough,
Southern Living,
30 Oct. 2025
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In February, Pearce was convicted of fatally drugging model Christy Giles and her friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola with fentanyl after a party in November 2021.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
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Also with Phoenix at the club were his siblings Joaquin and Rain Phoenix and his girlfriend Samantha Mathis.—
Lynsey Eidell,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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The new sedan certainly looked the part of that concept car-like two-door’s sibling, too.—
Will Sabel Courtney,
Robb Report,
30 Oct. 2025
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How can a kindly, God-fearing, and ascetic novice monk compete against that?—
Karl Ove Knausgaard,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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Her partner's mom got OP's daughter a gift, but none of her partner's siblings did.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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 3 Nov. 2025.
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