KISSING COUSINS Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

kissing cousins

noun

plural of kissing cousin

as in stocks

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Noun

Step Back Unlike stocks and bonds, whose prices are quoted on screens across Wall Street, managers of private lenders have broad leeway to value their loans, with varying degrees of input from third-party services.

— Ellen DiMauro, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Sipahimalani noted that roughly half the stocks in the Russell 3000 were at least 20% below their June highs, highlighting the degree to which the market's resilience has depended on a small group of winners.

— Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of stocks

Noun

Joby Aviation’s eVTOL Takes Flight Long before electric air taxis became one of aviation’s hottest races, Joby had established itself as the company everyone else was chasing.

— Robb Report, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026
Be sure to check out The Bee’s searchable Voter Guide, which contains even more information about the upcoming midterm election, including races, propositions, endorsements and important information about key dates.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of races

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That distinction matters, particularly when counseling families facing a devastating diagnosis.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
Plummer, the Montgomery County Republican chairman, is now on the ballot for the Ohio state Senate and stressed that Trump has been what keeps the GOP's coalition of businesses and working-class families together.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of families

Noun

Another 13 people were wounded on downtown Sacramento’s K Street and 10th Street, in what became the deadliest mass shooting in the city’s history.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
Organizers say more than 125,000 people are expected throughout the event, bringing in millions of dollars for the local economy.

— Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 19 June 2026

Definition of people

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How Doctors Diagnose and Treat It Health care providers use the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to classify trypanophobia as a specific phobia of the blood-injection-injury type.

— Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 8 Oct. 2026
The kids age normally, can eat food and drink blood, and have inherited some of their dad’s special powers.

— Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of blood

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With a Scott Dunn kids’ club that’s slicker than most London nurseries, the tribes here fluctuate with the school term timetable.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Van Sickle said 11 member tribes rely on treaty rights to harvest resources such as maple sap, cedar boughs and other forest products, essential for guaranteeing traditional ways of life on indigenous lands.

— Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of tribes

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Since at least the 1970s and 1980s, there have been incidents of gang rape of intoxicated, incapacitated women in fraternity houses.

— Richard Hall, Time, 7 Oct. 2026
Hyatt transformed the resort with six new buildings, including additional guest houses; all 117 rooms have also been overhauled, and there is a new pool as well as tons of new activities and programs.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

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