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Recent Examples of brotherly
The road toward brotherly love, however, is shown to be a bumpy one.
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Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2025
The White Lotus star Patrick Schwarzenegger breaks down latest brotherly love development: 'Whoa'
This week's episode revealed Greg's nefarious plan to — offer her $100,000 to keep quiet about his current location.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Lochlan Lochlan makes the wise decision to claim to have forgotten everything about his evening of brotherly love.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2025
Eaton had developed a brotherly relationship with Jackson.
—Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brotherly
fraternal
Adjective
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The event was electrified with pomp and fraternal celebration rarely seen in the modern world.—
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But only Pope John XXIII—whose fraternal letter to President John F. Kennedy and the Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev is thought to have eased the Cuban missile crisis—can be credited with an act of statecraft that helped preserve peace between nations.—
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“Brotherly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brotherly. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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