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Recent Examples of sisterly
When her little brother Tim begins behaving strangely, doctor-in-training Jamie Shandro calls on her medical school experience and her sisterly love to navigate his frightening diagnosis.
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Ashley M. Wilcox, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
People grow older but sisterly dynamics never change.
—Staff Author, People.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Willis provided these revelations about her sisterly baths and slumber parties with her famous mother while talking about her decision to co-sleep with her 1-year-old daughter, Louetta, according to Entertainment Weekly.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025
Despite having their own rooms, Amelia and Penelope have grown close over the past three years, forming a sisterly bond.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sisterly
Adjective
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The mockumentary-style series follows the lives of the diverse Tucker-Pritchett-Dunphy clan in suburban Los Angeles, offering a humorous take on familial dynamics.—
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Bacha began playing organized softball at age 4, the byproduct of a familial passion.—
Adjective
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There’s an easy, brotherly chemistry between each of them, a cross between a sports team and a boy band.—
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Trevor ‘welcomes contact’ in run game The Etienne brothers are one of the few brotherly duos in the NFL presently, and are one of the few in league history to be on NFL rosters at the same time and both play running back.—
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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“Sisterly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sisterly. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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