cousinship
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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They have played for years in Anaheim, in Orange County, yet they’re historically and legally yoked to L.A. in a freeway-friction cousinship to which L.A. is pretty much indifferent but one that grieves Orange County.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2022
The novel's outstanding quality is its cozy cousinship with a major American literary pattern�the novel of homecoming, of the haunting tie between small and big town.
From Time Magazine Archive
Actually, it is something between prose and poetry that Nabokov has used�he has retained Pushkin's iambic tetrameter�and the result is a recognizable and respectable cousinship.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have heard my mother sometimes trace such a thing out,—some indirect cousinship.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
Possibly this impresses us the more strongly on account of the cousinship.
From One Year Abroad by Howard, Blanche Willis
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