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or kinfolks
as in family
a group of persons who come from the same ancestor
let's invite all our kinfolk for the holidays
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Many of them were engulfed by settlers and forced to live on mountainous and agriculturally unproductive land, separated from their kinfolk who had migrated, with their cultural and political systems in a shambles.
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David Treuer, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
Self-defense became second nature to the British-Indian schoolboy, who organized street patrols to protect his kinfolk in Manchester.
—Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 27 June 2023
Often maintaining a certain distance from our kinfolk can help keep us together.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
All the kinfolk of the goat had long become food.
—Terrance Hayes, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
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David Treuer, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
Self-defense became second nature to the British-Indian schoolboy, who organized street patrols to protect his kinfolk in Manchester.
—Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 27 June 2023
Often maintaining a certain distance from our kinfolk can help keep us together.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
All the kinfolk of the goat had long become food.
—Terrance Hayes, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
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“Kinfolk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kinfolk. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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