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a group of persons who come from the same ancestor
the wedding joined the two tribes together
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Recent Examples of tribes
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.
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Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2024
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
Other names for October's full moon from Native American tribes include the Drying Rice Moon, Freezing Moon, and Migrating Moon.
—Jenny Porter Tilley, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Oct. 2024
Those are super strong social moves from a guy who, on many tribes, would be target number 1.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2024
After the reward, castaways were sent back to their original tribes and competed in an immunity challenge, where one tribe lost and someone was sent home.
—Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2024
The refuge relies on water released from Upper Klamath Lake by the Bureau of Reclamation, which also supplies water to local farmers, ranchers and tribes.
—Kale Williams, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
Once the tribes merge, chances are this bit of tea will get back to him.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 16 Oct. 2024
Members from all three tribes were divvied up into two teams for the season’s first reward challenge.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 16 Oct. 2024
Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2024
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
Other names for October's full moon from Native American tribes include the Drying Rice Moon, Freezing Moon, and Migrating Moon.
—Jenny Porter Tilley, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Oct. 2024
Those are super strong social moves from a guy who, on many tribes, would be target number 1.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2024
After the reward, castaways were sent back to their original tribes and competed in an immunity challenge, where one tribe lost and someone was sent home.
—Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2024
The refuge relies on water released from Upper Klamath Lake by the Bureau of Reclamation, which also supplies water to local farmers, ranchers and tribes.
—Kale Williams, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
Once the tribes merge, chances are this bit of tea will get back to him.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 16 Oct. 2024
Members from all three tribes were divvied up into two teams for the season’s first reward challenge.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 16 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tribes
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Authorities are investigating a shooting that left two people injured early Saturday morning in Union City.Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
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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
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“Tribes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tribes. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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