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first cousins

  • plural
    of first cousin.
    first cousin
    noun

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Carney met more than 20 of his cousins including Pat Carney and Maureen O'Malley, first cousins of his father and two of the prime minister's closest Irish relatives.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

"What we've done here is we've compared these drawings to Anne Boleyn's first cousins and to her daughter Elizabeth to look for the family similarity and geometry and they cluster," Davies explains.

From BBC ● May 1, 2026

He grew up in New York City and New Jersey, in a large, tightknit Jewish family with 52 first cousins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

Beatrice’s first cousins, Prince William and Prince Harry, did not attend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2025

“The priests say even first cousins never should marry,” she said.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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