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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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Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2024
Liam Payne left his kin with a big inheritance before his death.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 21 Oct. 2024
Morgan Meis, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
The Oscar winners have been friends for half a century and their kin span generations.
—Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
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Noun
To build the model with dimorphism, the team followed the size differences of alligators, the T. rex’s modern-day kin.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2024
Liam Payne left his kin with a big inheritance before his death.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 21 Oct. 2024
Adjective
Bennett’s musings have an ethical component: if a nuisance tree, or a dead tree, or a dead rat is my kin, then everything is kin—even a piece of trash.
—Morgan Meis, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
The Oscar winners have been friends for half a century and their kin span generations.
—Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
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“Kin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kin. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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