first-cousins

[Stove points out that most humans have greater lover for their children than for their brothers and sisters.] 6. '… no one is prepared to sacrifice his life for any single person, but everyone will sacrifice it for more than two brothers [or offspring], or four half-brothers, or eight first-cousins.'

March 10th, 2009 m_francis 2009

In fact, the only elite group that could ever spend a few days with a reporter without putting his/her foot in their mouths are our first-cousins, the publicists.

Zondra Hughes: Fail: McChrystal Didn't Know The Rules of Journo Combat 2010

These songs, recovered off of 78rpm discs and wax cylinders, are of course first-cousins to other “race” songs of the period, most notoriously, minstrel songs.

This Week at the 16th Street J « The Blog at 16th and Q 2008

He has a mother and a father, two grandmothers, one grandfather, four great-grandparents, three uncles and one aunt, no first-cousins yet but five second-cousins, five great-aunts, two great-uncles, and more honorary aunties, uncles and cousins than anyone can count.

Meredith Lopez: The Juban Princeling Turns One Year Old 2009

Some have threatened to sue after being set up with their own siblings or first-cousins.

A New Approach to Matchmaking 2006

Over the past four decades, the concepts of Empowerment and Entitlement, first-cousins in the family of American psychobabble, have conspired to produce what New York Observer writer Alexandra Wolfe labels "the most coddled generation in American history."

The Happiness Myth Steve Salerno 2007

If my father and mother were first-cousins (shared one set of grandparents), I would have only three sets of great-grandparents, and my family tree in previous generations would be reduced by a quarter.

Archive 2005-06-01 2005

My father had 48 first-cousins when he was growing up, most of whom are still living.

Archive 2005-07-01 2005

We were first-cousins; had been little playmates and friends from the time of our birth; and the first house in London to which I was taken, was that of our aunt, the mother of his Honor the Member of

Roundabout Papers 2006

Tomorrow I should get my paper done, though little second-cousins and big first-cousins are demanding my presence in Chula Juana.

Mood, an examination barbylon 2004