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Recent Examples of stepbrother
The stepbrothers' parents, Thomas Hudson and Shauntel Hudson, are fighting over custody, and have in court documents referred to the stepbrother -- who is a minor -- as a suspect in Kepner's death.
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Doug Lantz, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2025
Family Court Filings Reveal FBI Focus On Minor Court filings connected to the custody case indicate that Anna’s 16-year-old stepbrother is the subject of the FBI investigation into her death.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
Sadie Sink’s Max was a latecomer to the gang, arriving in the show’s second season alongside her stepbrother Billy (Dacre Montgomery) before linking up with the boys and helping Eleven develop in the real world.
—Sezin Devi Koehler, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Nov. 2025
The family of Anna Kepner, the high school senior whose younger stepbrother is now suspected in her recent death aboard a Carnival cruise, is breaking their silence on the tragic situation.
—Jami Ganz, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025
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Doug Lantz, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2025
Family Court Filings Reveal FBI Focus On Minor Court filings connected to the custody case indicate that Anna’s 16-year-old stepbrother is the subject of the FBI investigation into her death.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
Sadie Sink’s Max was a latecomer to the gang, arriving in the show’s second season alongside her stepbrother Billy (Dacre Montgomery) before linking up with the boys and helping Eleven develop in the real world.
—Sezin Devi Koehler, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Nov. 2025
The family of Anna Kepner, the high school senior whose younger stepbrother is now suspected in her recent death aboard a Carnival cruise, is breaking their silence on the tragic situation.
—Jami Ganz, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stepbrother
Noun
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On Monday, three brothers, all under 10 years old, died after falling through the ice on a pond in Bonham, about 60 miles northeast of Dallas.—
Elissa Jorgensen,
Dallas Morning News,
29 Jan. 2026
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Katharine and her older brother George were raised by their mother, a widow, who was also named Katharine.—
Natalia Sánchez Loayza,
Scientific American,
29 Jan. 2026
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Schloss' stepsister Anne and the Frank family hid in a secret annex in Amsterdam for two years during World War II to evade Nazi persecution for their Jewish faith.—
Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
5 Jan. 2026
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Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss, the stepsister of teenage diarist Anne Frank and a tireless educator about the horrors of the Holocaust, has died.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2026
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Sajwan has no direct stakes in UltraGreen, but his sister Indu Rawat and her husband Mahipal Singh Rawat are the ultimate beneficiaries of the windfall through The Saul Trust.—
Bernadette Toh,
Bloomberg,
28 Jan. 2026
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Barry’s little sister, who answered the call, was terrified.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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For the foreseeable future, rap’s crown now resides in the West, where Kendrick’s focus this year will be presumably on his cousin and pgLang labelmate Baby Keem.—
Angel Diaz,
Billboard,
27 Jan. 2026
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This creates the tip of the iceberg of the film’s most audacious idea — that the musical, which is set to feature Meg’s cousin in the role of the shooter, might actually want to explore what was going on inside him.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2026
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According to The Independent, Brooklyn, and his three siblings, Romeo, Cruz and Harper Beckham, all had their birth names registered with the Intellectual Property Office in 2017 by Victoria.—
Christina Dugan Ramirez,
FOXNews.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Although the couple later divorced, Alysa Liu and her siblings consider Qingxin as their mother.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Stepbrother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stepbrother. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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