kissing cousins

noun

Definition of kissing cousinsnext
plural of kissing cousin
as in stocks

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  1. people
  2. families
  3. blood
  4. tribes
  5. cousins
  6. clans
  7. folk
Noun
  • Authorities are investigating a shooting that left two people injured early Saturday morning in Union City.
    Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
  • 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
Definition of people
Noun
  • 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.
    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
Definition of families
Noun
  • Unlike the other traditional vampire roommates, Robinson doesn't feed off the blood of humans.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2024
  • In-person shopping involves physical movement, which gets your blood flowing, can boost your energy, and triggers the release of feel-good neurotransmitters known as endorphins, Dr. Cummins says.
    Lauren Mazzo, SELF, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of blood
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of tribes
Noun
  • Two people who relatives say are the victim’s cousins have been charged in connection with the murder in Connecticut of an 18-year-old whose body was found wrapped in a comforter on a highway.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Hartford police also confirmed that the suspects are cousins of the victim.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
Definition of cousins
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of clans
Noun
  • Some folks feel the need to fully disconnect from the digital world to understand this boundary.
    Discover Magazine, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2024
  • But the folks who write the checks have become more risk- and conflict-averse, and relentlessly focused on turning a profit in streaming (or, in the case of Netflix, maximizing its profits).
    Josef Adalian, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
Definition of folk
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Thesaurus Entries Near kissing cousins

kissing cousin

kissing cousins

kissing good-bye

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