as in relative
a person connected with another by blood or marriage
we both were surprised to learn that we are distant cousins
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Recent Examples of cousin
In the new experiment, scientists observed that baryons made of an up quark, a down quark and one of their more exotic cousins called a beauty quark decay more often than baryons made of the antimatter versions of those same three quarks.
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Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 16 July 2025
This included an unearthed letter written by a teenage Erik to his late cousin, penned before the murders and which discussed Jose Menendez’s ongoing abuse.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2025
The following day, McGrath’s cousin, 15-year-old Mason Murren, was seriously injured in an electric bike crash in Trumbull and later died, according to the Trumbull Police Department.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 15 July 2025
Around that time, though, his cousin Will Childers, who was also at Georgia and is now a pitcher in the Milwaukee Brewers’ farm system, needed a second Tommy John surgery.
—Will Sammon, New York Times, 8 July 2025
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Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 16 July 2025
This included an unearthed letter written by a teenage Erik to his late cousin, penned before the murders and which discussed Jose Menendez’s ongoing abuse.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2025
The following day, McGrath’s cousin, 15-year-old Mason Murren, was seriously injured in an electric bike crash in Trumbull and later died, according to the Trumbull Police Department.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 15 July 2025
Around that time, though, his cousin Will Childers, who was also at Georgia and is now a pitcher in the Milwaukee Brewers’ farm system, needed a second Tommy John surgery.
—Will Sammon, New York Times, 8 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cousin
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Ancestors and descendants dance at the perimeter of Harjo’s poems, and her definition of relative is wide enough to hold every living thing—panthers, raccoons, tobacco plants.—
The Atlantic Culture Desk,
The Atlantic,
23 July 2025
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Look out for others: Stay out of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
23 July 2025
Noun
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The ceasefire has held but any sense of normalcy has not returned to the relations between the two countries.—
Sam Dalrymple,
Time,
14 July 2025
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The situation reflects broader challenges in transatlantic trade relations as President Donald Trump has regularly cited a goods trade deficit of about $236 billion in 2024 while pushing Europe to buy more American cars, energy, and defense equipment.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 July 2025
Noun
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In February, officials did not respond to The Enquirer’s questions about a family who said the hospital wouldn’t put their 12-year-old daughter on its heart transplant waiting list because of her vaccination status.—
Patricia Gallagher Newberry,
The Enquirer,
25 July 2025
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Twin Pines history The Janssen family said that Twin Pines started after World War II, and its first deliveries were made by horse and buggy.—
Emma George-Griffin,
Freep.com,
25 July 2025
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But Ariadne also has an emotional connection to her monstrous kin and genuinely wants better for him.—
John Wiswell,
People.com,
3 July 2025
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Police are still working on notifying the first worker’s next-of-kin, so the person has not been identified yet.—
Helena Wegner
July 8,
Sacbee.com,
8 July 2025
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Our family grew—from the three siblings left in the wake of our mother’s death—to a bustling bunch of kinsmen redeemers.—
James T. Farmer,
Southern Living,
8 July 2025
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Rediscovering his family’s ancestral land centuries after the religious wars forced those kinsmen to flee, our caballero soon steps in to protect a local clan from an oppressive landowner and his abusive henchmen.—
Ben Croll,
Variety,
20 Sep. 2024
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“Cousin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cousin. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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