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Noun
They are her distant kin.
invited all of his kith and kin to his graduation party
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Helena Wegner
july 8, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2025
Colossal plans to use similar techniques to bring back the Ice Age woolly mammoth in 2028, editing living cell nuclei from Asian elephants—the mammoth’s closest living kin—to express mammoth traits preserved in nearly 60 sets of Ice Age remains.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
New Atlas, 4 Mar. 2025
The Secret Service was not playing to get in that motherf–kin’ stadium.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 11 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Police are still working on notifying the first worker’s next-of-kin, so the person has not been identified yet.
—Helena Wegner
july 8, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2025
Colossal plans to use similar techniques to bring back the Ice Age woolly mammoth in 2028, editing living cell nuclei from Asian elephants—the mammoth’s closest living kin—to express mammoth traits preserved in nearly 60 sets of Ice Age remains.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
And non-kin pairs were more likely to engage in this genital-to-genital contact than kin.
—New Atlas, 4 Mar. 2025
The Secret Service was not playing to get in that motherf–kin’ stadium.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 11 Feb. 2025
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“Kin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kin. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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