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as in communities
a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially
that clan of football fans has parties every weekend on which the New England Patriots play
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as in tribes
a group of persons who come from the same ancestor
the whole clan gets together only for holidays
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Recent Examples of clans
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.
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Caitlin Penzeymoog, Vox, 7 Oct. 2024
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
In these privileged clans, a few dominant male rats mated with (and protected) a larger number of females.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
The rats had divided themselves into eleven clans.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Caitlin Penzeymoog, Vox, 7 Oct. 2024
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
In these privileged clans, a few dominant male rats mated with (and protected) a larger number of females.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
The rats had divided themselves into eleven clans.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clans
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That's because most Americans, including in the communities ravaged by the massive storm, lack flood insurance.Kate Gibson, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2024
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Additionally, the Biden administration warned that pausing the rule would harm downwind states and tribal communities that live near power plants.Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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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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Today, though, even the most exclusive of these maritime cliques embrace their surrounding communities, whether through wildly popular race weeks, youth sailing programs, or taking the helm on sustainability issues.Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2024
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When and why do girls start forming cliques?Hannah L. Schacter, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2024
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“Clans.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clans. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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