kissing cousins
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But jet fuel and diesel are the kissing cousins of the energy world, both coming from the same middle-distillate group at the refining stage.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
In this chapter, you describe cults and conspiracy theories as "kissing cousins," noting that America has its own favorite flavor of conspiracy theory, with three key ingredients.
From Salon ● May 26, 2025
But while numerous other culinary trends have come and gone, Cal Mex has not only remained but thrived, even as skeptics mocked and dismissed it and its kissing cousins, Tex-Mex and Sur-Mex, as something inferior.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
In a show that parsed the story of glamour after dark, he found harmony in opposition, made clashing prints into kissing cousins.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2020
It’s such a distant connection that I hope Oscar won’t bring up our being kissing cousins at school.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
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