clansman

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Recent Examples of clansman Then again, Christopher Lambert doesn't exactly sell his lead role as a Scottish clansman. Clark Collis, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2020 When one of Shade’s clansmen sleeps with a woman from another tribe, Shade is called upon to avenge the curse this affair will wreak on his people. Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2019 Thousands of spectators attend the yearly event where clansmen test each other’s prowess in various competitions, including bagpiping, drumming, highland dancing and sheep dog trials. San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2019 About 10,000 people gather for the event, in which clansmen compete in various competitions, including bagpiping, drumming, highland dancing, athletics and sheep dog trials. Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 June 2018 The design, which depicts two giants, the Taku River, clansmen, a bear holding a shield, the sun, a wolf and more, is starting to take shape. Alex McCarthy, The Seattle Times, 16 Dec. 2017 But unbeknownst to Claire, Jamie did in fact survive the Battle of Culloden while most of his Highlander clansmen did not. Sydney Bucksbaum, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2017 And in addition to physical threats, Jamie has to face the trauma of losing Claire, and nearly all of his clansmen. Cara Kelly, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2017 By marshaling the support of fellow clansmen and other donors, the project drew support from as far away as the United States and Britain, providing crucial food and water to nearly 1,000 families. Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clansman
Noun
  • 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
  • At the time of President Lincoln's assassination, my father was in Washington visiting his kinsman, Col. Thomas M. Vincent, who was on the staff of the Adjutant General.
    Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 3 Sep. 2020
Noun
  • The camps are home to descendants of Palestinians who fled or were forced to flee during wars with Israel decades ago.
    Majdi Mohammed and Tia Goldenberg, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The prototype's less disturbing Clone descendants, however, could one day be vacuuming our carpets.
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • As a result, half the offspring of each breeding pair will inherit the supergene, and half will not.
    Donna L. Maney, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2025
  • At the time, Congress did not debate whether offspring of people in the country illegally were guaranteed citizenship.
    Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 15 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The focus of the show’s first room is looking at the structure of a basket to understand which plant relatives are part of that creation of a basket—everything from Juncus to deergrass to yucca.
    Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 17 Feb. 2025
  • He was born in 1922 and raised in Connecticut and Massachusetts with a father who was jailed when Lear was 9, leaving him bouncing among relatives after his emotionally distant mother gave up on tending her children.
    John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The flag still lacks any representation of our Illiniwek and Miami heritage, which should be added by their progeny.
    Brad Weisenstein, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The hope, of course, is that the joyous moments outweigh the headaches and that on some lizard-brain level, this early exposure will pay off someday, helping to shape the great people that our progeny will eventually become.
    Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Mackey, who plays the young woman, has a sharp, precociously severe profile, like a young Uma Thurman or movie-star scion Chiara Mastroianni, who inherited her dad’s sharp cheekbones and the wide, doll-like eyes of her mom (Catherine Deneuve).
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The Trump of the first half of the movie might surprise viewers used to the 2025 version: an outer-borough scion, ambitious but unsure, who bristles under his despotic father, aspires to greater recognition and bets big on the revival of Midtown Manhattan during its 1970s nadir.
    Marc Tracy, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025

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“Clansman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clansman. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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