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  • noun Plural form of elative.

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Examples

  • She acclimated quickly, r elatives told the newspaper, "dining with local seamstresses and wise women, and attending a birthday party for a village child."

    unknown title 2009

  • Sri Lanka police took two Tamil youths of the north into custody in two separate incidents while the youths were waiting at the Katunayake International Airport to go abroad for employment, according to complaints lodged by their elatives to the police and Missing Peoples Monitoring Committee (MPMC) in Colombo.

    TamilNet Newswire 2009

  • The FP added that Palin had no first-degree elatives with major medical problems.

    MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2008

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