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Recent Examples of kinfolk At the time, Mao Zedong let Inner Mongolians keep the script, in part to distinguish them from kinfolk across the border. Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023 Long, frozen winters and fleeting, lazy summers in this remote area of the country helped forge tightknit bonds — over bonfires, while fishing or snowshoeing, or in musical jam circles — between kinfolk and friends. Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2023 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 See All Example Sentences for kinfolk

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“Kinfolk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kinfolk. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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