to bond
/ˈbɑnd/
verbto develop a relationship with a person
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1. Those two discrete eras give Bonds a striking list of achievements and accolades.
2. Bonds had famous blowups and dugout brawls.
3. Bonds produced.
4. Bonds had absolutely obliterated a pitch from K-Rod.
5. Bonding the river?
ally
/ˈæɫaɪ/, /əˈɫaɪ/
nounsomeone who helps or supports someone else in certain activities or against someone else
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1. - Ally, that is 100% true. -
2. Was Allies on to something?
3. Allies matter.
4. Ally, just email me that stuff.
5. You forged allies.
acquaintance
/əˈkweɪntəns/
nouna person whom one knows but is not a close friend
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1. Acquaintances were few.
2. Some people are acquaintances.
3. The tier above this is the acquaintance.
4. Most people have a couple dozen acquaintances.
5. - I know several acquaintances.
BFF
/bˌiːˌɛfˈɛf/
nounsomeone's best friend, used by young people on social media, especially in text messages
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1. You guys are BFF.
2. We have Melly, her naughty BFF.
3. My gun is my BFF.
4. Paperwork is your BFF.
5. Trading at BFF.
buddy
/ˈbədi/
nouna close friend
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1. "Eat one, buddy!"
2. Blow out your candles buddy, happy birthday Leo Jr.
3. Pack up buddy.
4. Q: Come on, buddy!
5. Take care buddy. -
pal
/ˈpæɫ/
nouna friend
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1. What's up, pals?
2. This ain't Canadian coleslaw, pal.
3. - I got your back, pal.
4. The quirky coming-of-age tale of an upper crust debutante and her pals was a trendsetter in fashion, lingo, and attitudes alike.
5. Come on, pal.
companion
/kəmˈpænjən/
nouna person or animal with which one travels or spends a lot of time
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1. I'll be your neighbour, your nurse, your housekeeper, your companion.
2. Many galaxies have companion, satellite galaxies.
3. The fate of Billy, Tambo’s companion is unknown.
4. Six, grow companion plants.
5. But I like companions.
mate
/ˈmeɪt/
nouna wife, husband, or partner
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1. Cheers mate.
2. And 'mate' of course means friend.
3. Mates are the captain's "right hand."
4. Where are your trainers from, mate?
5. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
co-parent
/kˈoʊpˈɛɹənt/
nouna person who shares the responsibilities of raising a child
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1. Your parent may lean on you to co-parent and take care of the home while she works.
2. Apparently, they're very good friends now, they celebrate a lot of holidays together, they co-parent their children together very well.
3. Are you dealing with a co-parent who's a narcissist during these holidays?
4. But certainly in our primary romantic relationship, and if we're co-parent together, all the more so.
5. We're very, like co-parents.
half-brother
/hˈæfbɹˈʌðɚ/
nouna brother that shares only one biological parent with one
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1. Her brother was a half-brother.
2. Her brother was a half-brother.
3. He was the half-brother of Jesus.
4. Making the couple biological half-brothers.
5. Dance hall and hip-hop are basically, like, half-brothers.
half-sister
/hˈæfsˈɪstɚ/
nouna sister that shares only one biological parent with one
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1. He began regular visits with Betty and his half-sister Rosalyn.
2. One notorious scandal involved an affair with his own half-sister.
3. He also had four wives, all half-sisters.
4. Felix de Marez Oyens’s half-sister continued to do detailed research on the fate of the family’s art collection.
5. According to Vanity Fair, her half-sister wrote in her memoir My Sister Marilyn that Monroe's business manager, Inez Melson, went through her things after her passing.
heir
/ˈɛɹ/
nounsomeone who has the legal right to inherit the property, money, or title of a deceased individual
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1. Whose womb contained my heir ♪
2. That heir was Trajan.
3. Franz Joseph had his heir.
4. I have an heir.
5. An old king had no heirs to the throne.
next of kin
/nˈɛkst ʌv kˈɪn/
nounone's closest living relative or relatives
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1. Creditors can go after estates, but not next of kin.
2. Cannibals, like this sea butterfly mollusk, that eats its next of kin.
3. The next of kin believed that their loved ones were also addicted, but these were legitimate patients.
4. The company moved to the next of kin, the business savvy Forrest.
5. But he did list Tom as her next of kin.
orphan
/ˈɔɹfən/
nouna child whose parents have died
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1. Next movie is Orphan, another thriller.
2. - Adopting orphans.
3. They used orphans this time.
4. To orphan one little wizard baby?
5. The orphan has had her fill.
descendant
/dɪˈsɛndənt/
nounsomeone who shares the same blood with a specific person who lived many years ago
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1. Descendants, any of his future descendants might have claim as Emperor of France or King of France.
2. Her descendants help in our country's ENJOYED.
3. Hendrik Witbooi’s descendants are attending the reception.
4. His descendants sing the praises of his heroism.
5. Descendants of the Strauss family run this business to this day.
adoptive
/əˈdɑptɪv/
adjective(of a child or parent) related through adoption
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1. After all, adoptive parents are essentially helping someone else’s offspring that carry someone else’s genes.
2. You have to kill your father or adoptive father, what?
3. And in some rare cases, adoptive parents do not treat their children very well.
4. And even the adoptive parents, whose rights-- MERRICK GARLAND:
5. The adoptive parents were lined up.
biracial
/baɪˈɹeɪʃəɫ/
adjectiverepresenting or involving members of two different races
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1. She is, um, biracial.
2. Both have been biracial Asian white.
3. Like Meghan and little Archie, Grace Wales Bonner is also biracial.
4. I'm also biracial.
5. And she's biracial too.
elder
/ˈɛɫdɝ/
adjective(of two people, particularly in the same family) older
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1. With time, the elders agreed.
2. They follow the elder.
3. Number one, respect your elders.
4. Oh okay. - Respect your elders.
5. Elders would get a kick out of this.
intimate
/ˈɪnəmət/, /ˈɪntəˌmeɪt/, /ˈɪntəmət/
adjective(of people) having a very close relationship
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1. Now a bigger challenge is developing intimate relationships.
2. That conversation is crazy intimate!
3. My boy got intimate.
4. These forms of touch are not intimate at all.
5. This one is more intimate.
sisterly
/sˈɪstɚli/
adjectivecharacteristic of a sister or like one
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1. It was marvely, it was sisterly.
2. Maybe Kolini's reaction was overly dramatic or maybe it was just some sisterly tough love.
3. While the Brown women put on a united front for the media, there are rumors that the sister wives aren't exactly sisterly.
4. - We are going to have some sisterly time.
5. Hey man, that was supposed to be like a legit beautiful brother and sisterly moment.
tight-knit
/tˈaɪtnˈɪt/
adjective(of a family or group of people) having a strong and friendly relationship with each other
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1. We have very tight-knit relationships with Michigan farmers, Detroit farmers.
2. I really just want a tight-knit group of friends.
3. The family formed a tight-knit group.
4. This family is tight-knit.
5. That is, until scandal hit the tight-knit evangelical Christian family.
ancestry
/ˈænsɛstɹi/
nounthe people that a person is descended from
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1. Most Black Americans have white ancestry.
2. The Julian family traced its ancestry back to Venus via Aeneas, through Aeneas.
3. Ancestry is a particularly powerful element of self-awareness and self-actualization.
4. We have different ancestry.
5. - You have amazing ancestry.
heritage
/ˈhɛɹətədʒ/, /ˈhɛɹɪtɪdʒ/
nounan individual's religious or ethnic background that is passed down to them from their ancestors
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1. Preserve your heritage?
2. Heritage hangs from the walls.
3. This dish represents my heritage.
4. The Navy SEALs can trace their heritage back to World War II.
5. They have heritage.
branch
/ˈbɹæntʃ/
nouna subdivision or a group of members of an extended family sharing the same ancestors
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1. When the multiverse branched.
2. And those networks are typically branching hierarchical networks.
3. - Take out the branch!
4. Dodging branches.
5. The collective weight of thousands of birds bends branches almost to breaking point.
brotherhood
/ˈbɹəðɝˌhʊd/
nounthe relationship between two or more brothers
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1. Early in their careers, a marketing department linked the two sluggers in brotherhood.
2. This murder perfectly replicates Hughes' death from Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood.
3. We had a brotherhood.
4. Our channel is about brotherhood between Marco and I
5. - I could sense the brotherhood.
clan
/ˈkɫæn/
nouna large group of people who are related to each other
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1. One clan in the USA - Clan Donald - has 4,000 families.
2. Join the clan.
3. The clan is struggling.
4. The clan makes a successful kill.
5. And now the clan is back on their trail.
breakup
/ˈbɹeɪˌkəp/
nounthe end of a relationship or an association
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1. Today's word is breakup.
2. Breakups are hard.
3. With different zip codes, breakups are basically automatic.
4. Breakups are hard.
5. Breakups are arguably one of the worst parts of life for a physical human.
inheritance
/ˌɪnˈhɛɹətəns/
nounwhat one receives upon a person's death, such as property, money, etc.
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1. Freedom is my inheritance.
2. I have an inheritance.
3. Number two is expecting an inheritance.
4. Inheritance was also a complex matter in the Danelaw.
5. Another is inheritance.
parenting
/ˈpɛɹəntɪŋ/
nounthe process of raising or taking care of one's child or children
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1. But actually, parenting requires connection and relationship.
2. Parenting is no joke.
3. Parenting myth number one, parenting is about the child.
4. Parenting burn out.
5. Parenting can lick my butt.
devotion
/dɪˈvoʊʃən/
nounstrong love and support expressed for a person or thing
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1. His determination and devotion moved the princess.
2. This devotion to their mission was a famous trait of the order.
3. Bach's devotion to his profession was legendary.
4. That's devotion.
5. Justice is devotion to one's own.
rapport
/ɹæˈpɔɹ/
nouna close relationship in which there is a good understanding and communication between people
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1. We have a good rapport.
2. I got rapport with Matty.
3. Number three is build a rapport.
4. Rapport is the connection, the bond, between two people.
5. This instantly establishes rapport with other people.
lifelong
/ˈɫaɪˈfɫɔŋ/
adjectivelasting the whole of a person's life
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1. The two men remained lifelong friends.
2. Finally fulfilling a lifelong dream.
3. His grandparents are both lifelong farmers.
4. Every family forms a lifelong bond.
5. I made lifelong friends.
maturity
/məˈtʃʊɹəti/, /mətˈjʊɹɪti/
nounthe period or state of being physically grown or developed
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1. Some areas of the brain reach maturity faster than others.
2. Some areas reach maturity faster than others.
3. Vascularization of epithelial structures enhances their maturity.
4. Bond maturities range anywhere from one to 30 years.
5. Only one in a thousand leatherback hatchlings will reach maturity.
to dump
/ˈdəmp/
verbto end a relationship that one was romantically involved in, often in a way that is unexpected or unfair
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1. The storm could dump 30 inches of rain and trigger floods and landslides.
2. - Dump a bunch of salt in there.
3. Many lab operators dump the toxic waste down household drains or in fields and yards or on rural roads.
4. Many lab operators dump the toxic waste down household drains, or in fields and yards, or on rural roads.
5. Dump the carrots, onions, celery, and garlic onto the bottom of the pan.
bromance
/bɹˈoʊməns/
nouna very friendly and affectionate relationship that two men have with each other, which is not sexual at all
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1. They had the strongest bromance in the league.
2. Trump would much rather talk about his bromance with Kim Jong-un than Republicans' handling of the sexual-assault allegations against Kavanaugh.
3. Look at this bromance!
4. The bromance has been renewed.
5. Number four: Turn it into a bromance.
homeboy
/hˈoʊmbɔɪ/
nouna close friend or companion from one's neighborhood or hometown, often sharing a similar background or upbringing
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1. Yeah, whatever, homeboys is swampy. -
2. Homeboy was sadly mistaken.
3. Also homeboy is hiding under the duvet in my bed.
4. We all have that homeboy.
5. - So homeboy set the world record in 2011?
