stepsibling
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Campbell was born in Salzburg, Austria, the second daughter of Georg and Maria von Trapp and a younger stepsibling to the older von Trapp children who went on to be depicted in stage and film.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
Like the world of “WandaVision,” Disney’s creations reflected not quite reality but its saccharine stepsibling, recognizable and appealing but hardly real life.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 5, 2021
Murphy certainly took his time getting to the slasher movie, horror’s perpetual ugly stepsibling: He first took on haunted houses, mental asylums, witches, clowns, the nuclear holocaust, and Jill Stein voters.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2019
House CBS warred internally with its stepsibling House Viacom.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2019
Her memories of her stepsibling are warm, though the relationship between the adults was anything but harmonious.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2017
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