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adjective

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Recent Examples of kin
Noun
Moms who align with the zodiac sign Cancer are close to their kin and take the time to instill values into their children. Lisa Stardust, People.com, 17 May 2025 The beasts have developed a new method of ambush in the Wyoming winter, in which some of them stay warm beneath an insulating layer of their frozen kin. Noel Murray, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
Chickens also retain a smidge of the predatory instinct that made their kin such formidable hunters. Scott Travers, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for kin
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kin
Noun
  • However, six yeshivas received notifications from the state Education Department earlier this year instructing families to find other ways of educating their children and cutting off the schools’ public funding.
    Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 18 June 2025
  • Giving way Construction of a KB Home single family housing development is shown in Menifee, California, U.S., September 4, 2024.
    Sara Salinas, CNBC, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Over the previous weekend, the duo traveled north to make a grand appearance at Kelce's cousin Tanner Corum's wedding in Knoxville, Tennessee.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 14 June 2025
  • The Royal House of Sweden previously announced that Princess Ines' godparents would be her cousin Princess Estelle, 13, Tiara Larsson, Fredrik von der Esch, Claes Kockum and Sandrine Kockum.
    Janine Henni, People.com, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • Trump’s policies and rhetoric seem aimed at nothing less than turning America’s dark double into its kindred soul.
    Eric Jason Martin Tanya Pérez Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
  • The record will appear on his debut album Order Chaos Order, out June 13, which emerged from a kindred dichotomy.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Instead of just making the Berk tribe inexplicably multiracial, this little bit of world-building gives an explanation to the (slightly) more diverse casting.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 14 June 2025
  • The tribe bought the more than 500-acre property in April to give to the Sho-Pai for the project.
    Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • Gifted procedures weren’t out of the ordinary among relatives.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2025
  • Jenny Boelter was detained along with three relatives by law enforcement more than 100 miles from her home late Saturday morning, the Mille Lacs County sheriff said Sunday.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • Nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed on D-Day - more than 4,400 of whom died in the assault.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 7 June 2025
  • Over the entire Battle of Normandy, codename Operation Overlord, which lasted until Aug. 30, 73,000 Allied troops were killed and 155,000 wounded.
    The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • The father, Buddy Smart (Bryan Cranston), is the clan’s second-rate crackpot visionary, a cockeyed optimist who dresses in fuddy-duddy jackets and never knows where the next paycheck is coming from.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 June 2025
  • The compilation clip featured lively snippets of the El Moussa clan's visit to Sin City, including outfit reveals, preparation for El Moussa's keynote speaker gig and a theatrical live show.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 11 June 2025
Adjective
  • Instead, the players stood behind him patiently — fidgeting now and then, their faces mainly expressionless — as Trump answered questions that mostly related to the potential of U.S. involvement in Israel’s war against Iran.
    Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
  • Bono earns his first career hit as a soloist on the Hot Rap Songs chart and his second honor on a related list, the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs tally.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025

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“Kin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kin. Accessed 25 Jun. 2025.

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