kindred spirit

1. Also, kindred soul. An individual with the same beliefs, attitudes or feelings as oneself. For example, Dean and I are kindred spirits when it comes to spending money—we're both tight. [Mid-1800s]

Example Sentences

Candy graduated to lead roles in comedies like “Summer Rental,” “The Great Outdoors” and “Who’s Harry Crumb?,” and he found a kindred spirit in the writer and director John Hughes, who helped provide Candy with some of his most enduring roles in movies like “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” “Uncle Buck” and “Home Alone.”

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Brown describes her character as a "kindred spirit" to Belly.

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His only kindred spirit in that sense is Robbie Savage, who has taken the manager's job at Forest Green Rovers, currently second in the National League.

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"There was a kindred spirit there, and they did not have to worry about him bolting from the movement. He was loyal."

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Last week, Judge Carlos Mendoza showed himself to be a kindred spirit to Ben Franklin when he struck down Florida House Bill 1069, a book ban which was signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis two years ago.

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