Thesaurus results for TRIBAL

tribal

adjective

ˈtrī-bəl

as in ethnic

of, relating to, or reflecting the traits exhibited by a group of people with a common ancestry and culture a tribal solidarity that transcends all other loyalties or bonds

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Recent Examples of tribal On Wednesday, March 4, the Cila tribe marched to tribal council for the second time and sent season 49 champion Savannah Louie home. —

Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 5 Mar. 2026 While biologists, tribal members and environmentalists cheered, condor experts cautioned that the possible egg may not be the first to try the sky above its redwood nest in Yurok Country. —

Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 5 Mar. 2026 The second challenge saw a big turnaround for Vatu, which went from dead last to take the win and avoid tribal council. —

Jacob Wilt, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 4 Mar. 2026 Records also show the nonprofit, in a joint project with UC San Diego, received a contract worth more than $700,000 from the U.S. National Institutes of Health last August to help reduce opioid overdoses on tribal lands. —

Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tribal

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Roozbeh Farahanipour, a former Iranian dissident who now lives in Los Angeles, worries that a destabilized Iran, with its complex cultural heritage and patchwork of ethnic and religious groups, could devolve into a far worse mess than post-invasion Iraq.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2026
The logic and its appeal The Kurds – roughly 30 million to 40 million people across Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran – are the world’s largest stateless ethnic group.

— John Calabrese, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2026