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as in tribes
a group of persons who come from the same ancestor
the Adams family made remarkable contributions to American life for more than two centuries
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as in types
one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic
the flute, the clarinet, the oboe, and other members of the woodwind family
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Recent Examples of families
Magda Teter Jewish Middlemen, Archival Myopia The story of two Jewish trading families during the last decades of the Regency of Algiers is skewed by being told through the perspectives of only European and American actors.
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Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
The sale had the backing of several of the Connecticut families of the Sandy Hook shooting who were part of the lawsuit.
—Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
That has caused a crisis in the park, and there are families who have had to move against their will.
—Albinson Linares, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
The story of two Jewish trading families during the last decades of the Regency of Algiers is skewed by being told through the perspectives of only European and American actors.
—Magda Teter, The New York Review of Books, 14 Nov. 2024
Embraer is the world’s third-largest plane maker and focuses on up to 150-seat single-aisle regional and executive aircraft, slightly smaller than Airbus’ and Boeing’s best-selling A320 and 737 families and rivalling the Airbus A220.
—Reuters, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
The families in Texas and Connecticut have sparred in court over the liquidation process, with concerns over how the money will be distributed.
—Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
Victims' families filed lawsuits in Connecticut and Texas accusing Jones of defaming them on his show and inflicting emotional distress by repeatedly suggesting that the shooting, in which a gunman killed 20 first-grade children and six adults, was a hoax.
—Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
The families in the Texas and Connecticut lawsuits have sparred in court over the liquidation process, with concerns over how the money will be distributed.
—Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
The sale had the backing of several of the Connecticut families of the Sandy Hook shooting who were part of the lawsuit.
—Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
That has caused a crisis in the park, and there are families who have had to move against their will.
—Albinson Linares, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
The story of two Jewish trading families during the last decades of the Regency of Algiers is skewed by being told through the perspectives of only European and American actors.
—Magda Teter, The New York Review of Books, 14 Nov. 2024
Embraer is the world’s third-largest plane maker and focuses on up to 150-seat single-aisle regional and executive aircraft, slightly smaller than Airbus’ and Boeing’s best-selling A320 and 737 families and rivalling the Airbus A220.
—Reuters, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
The families in Texas and Connecticut have sparred in court over the liquidation process, with concerns over how the money will be distributed.
—Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
Victims' families filed lawsuits in Connecticut and Texas accusing Jones of defaming them on his show and inflicting emotional distress by repeatedly suggesting that the shooting, in which a gunman killed 20 first-grade children and six adults, was a hoax.
—Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
The families in the Texas and Connecticut lawsuits have sparred in court over the liquidation process, with concerns over how the money will be distributed.
—Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for families
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Many tribes were critical of NAGPRA for empowering museums to make decisions about whether Indigenous people had valid connections to their ancestors.Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2024
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The Met and other museums with significant Native American collections are also being criticized for displaying work with descriptions that omit or minimize information about the wars, occupations, massacres, and exploitation that dominated the tribes’ past.Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2024
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Chaos and crime Testing Hamas’ limited capabilities is the reemergence of armed gangs and clans, who held sway in Gaza before 2007.Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2024
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Dungeons & Dragons taught fantasy fans to understand orcs as a fusion of racist tropes, combining a barbaric other and a vaguely native people of tribes and clans.Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Vox, 7 Oct. 2024
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Authorities are investigating a shooting that left two people injured early Saturday morning in Union City.Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
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Scientists know now that the stealthy menace originated in east Asia and was probably spread inadvertently by people to every continent except Antarctica.Martin J. Kernan, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2024
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One hundred primary sampling units were randomly selected, with households selected via random walk and respondents selected via the last-birthday method.Gary Langer, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2024
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The support measures would include subsidies to low-income households and significantly larger grants to local governments, Ishiba said in the speech.Anniek Bao, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Families.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/families. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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