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Recent Examples of sisterly
The women quickly developed a sisterly bond with each other — and with Parton herself.
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Amber Roberson, The Tennessean, 19 Aug. 2025
The two met at Double-A Hartford and formed a sisterly bond.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 10 Aug. 2025
Her first children's book, Maverick and Me, follows a story about dog adoption, while her second, Good Night, Sister, centers around a sisterly bond.
—Nicholas Rice, People.com, 15 July 2025
Until now, the answer had been an easy one for spectacular sisterly duo Agnes van Rhijn and the former Ada Brook, splendidly portrayed by Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon.
—Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 23 June 2025
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Amber Roberson, The Tennessean, 19 Aug. 2025
The two met at Double-A Hartford and formed a sisterly bond.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 10 Aug. 2025
Her first children's book, Maverick and Me, follows a story about dog adoption, while her second, Good Night, Sister, centers around a sisterly bond.
—Nicholas Rice, People.com, 15 July 2025
Until now, the answer had been an easy one for spectacular sisterly duo Agnes van Rhijn and the former Ada Brook, splendidly portrayed by Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon.
—Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 23 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sisterly
Adjective
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This musical blends gospel and Motown with operatic stylings to illuminate the changing times of the Civil Rights era while examining social and familial issues still prevalent today.—
Meredith G. White,
AZCentral.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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Tensions arise when a struggling, idealistic poet meets his girlfriend’s family at their idyllic, hillside countryside home in Hong Sang-soo’s latest feature — a quietly profound meditation on the complexities of filial love and familial strife.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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And of course the relationship was the brotherly type, for good and bad.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
26 Sep. 2025
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The script had a lot of that [brotherly dynamic] already there.—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The five-story, 46,000-square-foot Shrine building was built in 1906 by the Shriners, a fraternal organization that used it as a meeting hall.—
Thomas Gounley,
Denver Post,
27 Sep. 2025
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After mending their ties in 2021, the GCC states have come to share a fraternal insistence on steering Arabian Gulf affairs from within.—
Monica Marks,
Time,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Sisterly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sisterly. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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