as in relative
a person connected with another by blood or marriage
we both were surprised to learn that we are distant cousins
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Recent Examples of cousin
His cousin, Supergirl, will be starring in her own story, the second movie in the new chapter of the DC Universe.
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Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 6 July 2025
Paula Zunker, Reece’s wife, also died, according to the soccer team’s statement and a post by Recce Zunker’s cousin, Haley Furlough.
—Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 6 July 2025
Our English cousins inhabit a kingdom that has lasted more or less continuously for a thousand years.
—The Editors, National Review, 4 July 2025
Eventually, they were joined by their cousin, Mike Love, and a friend from school, Al Jardine.
—Tracy Wright , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2025
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Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 6 July 2025
Paula Zunker, Reece’s wife, also died, according to the soccer team’s statement and a post by Recce Zunker’s cousin, Haley Furlough.
—Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 6 July 2025
Our English cousins inhabit a kingdom that has lasted more or less continuously for a thousand years.
—The Editors, National Review, 4 July 2025
Eventually, they were joined by their cousin, Mike Love, and a friend from school, Al Jardine.
—Tracy Wright , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cousin
Noun
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Avoid sun exposure: Avoid direct sun exposure, protect yourself and check on vulnerable relatives and neighbors.—
Bay Area Weather Report,
Mercury News,
11 July 2025
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Look out for others: Stay out of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
11 July 2025
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The ceasefire has held but any sense of normalcy has not returned to the relations between the two countries.—
Sam Dalrymple,
Time,
14 July 2025
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The spat threatened to shatter relations between them and centered in part on a news story that described divisions between the FBI and the Justice Department.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
13 July 2025
Noun
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The road for becoming a historian started with researching his family’s history, specifically his father’s side.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 July 2025
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Beauchemin was since taken down his Facebook page and cut off contact with his family, at least temporarily, an insider told TMZ.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
12 July 2025
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Police are still working on notifying the first worker’s next-of-kin, so the person has not been identified yet.—
Helena Wegner
July 8,
Sacbee.com,
8 July 2025
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Colossal plans to use similar techniques to bring back the Ice Age woolly mammoth in 2028, editing living cell nuclei from Asian elephants—the mammoth’s closest living kin—to express mammoth traits preserved in nearly 60 sets of Ice Age remains.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 Apr. 2025
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Our family grew—from the three siblings left in the wake of our mother’s death—to a bustling bunch of kinsmen redeemers.—
James T. Farmer,
Southern Living,
8 July 2025
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Rediscovering his family’s ancestral land centuries after the religious wars forced those kinsmen to flee, our caballero soon steps in to protect a local clan from an oppressive landowner and his abusive henchmen.—
Ben Croll,
Variety,
20 Sep. 2024
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“Cousin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cousin. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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