in-laws

noun

Definition of in-lawsnext
plural of in-law
as in families

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  1. families
  2. people
  3. cousins
  4. tribes
  5. folk
  6. clans
  7. blood
Noun
  • Magda Teter Jewish Middlemen, Archival Myopia The story of two Jewish trading families during the last decades of the Regency of Algiers is skewed by being told through the perspectives of only European and American actors.
    Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
  • The families in Texas and Connecticut have sparred in court over the liquidation process, with concerns over how the money will be distributed.
    Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of families
Noun
  • Authorities are investigating a shooting that left two people injured early Saturday morning in Union City.
    Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
  • Scientists know now that the stealthy menace originated in east Asia and was probably spread inadvertently by people to every continent except Antarctica.
    Martin J. Kernan, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2024
Definition of people
Noun
  • Hartford police also confirmed that the suspects are cousins of the victim.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Two people who relatives say are the victim’s cousins have been charged in connection with the murder in Connecticut of an 18-year-old whose body was found wrapped in a comforter on a highway.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
Definition of cousins
Noun
  • Many tribes were critical of NAGPRA for empowering museums to make decisions about whether Indigenous people had valid connections to their ancestors.
    Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The Met and other museums with significant Native American collections are also being criticized for displaying work with descriptions that omit or minimize information about the wars, occupations, massacres, and exploitation that dominated the tribes’ past.
    Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of tribes
Noun
  • Some folks feel the need to fully disconnect from the digital world to understand this boundary.
    Discover Magazine, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2024
  • But the folks who write the checks have become more risk- and conflict-averse, and relentlessly focused on turning a profit in streaming (or, in the case of Netflix, maximizing its profits).
    Josef Adalian, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
Definition of folk
Noun
  • Chaos and crime Testing Hamas’ limited capabilities is the reemergence of armed gangs and clans, who held sway in Gaza before 2007.
    Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Dungeons & Dragons taught fantasy fans to understand orcs as a fusion of racist tropes, combining a barbaric other and a vaguely native people of tribes and clans.
    Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Vox, 7 Oct. 2024
Definition of clans
Noun
  • Those cases were discovered using blood, or serology, testing and seem to have been transmitted from sick animals, not people.
    Erika Edwards, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • The blood of each nation courses through the American vein and feeds the spirit that compels us to involve ourselves in the fate of this good earth.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of blood
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