How to Use family resemblance in a Sentence
family resemblance
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Each set has, to borrow Wittgenstein’s phrase, a family resemblance, a way of doing things.
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Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Suddenly, family resemblance is the whole point.
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Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
21 Mar. 2026
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That’s part of it, sometimes, but multiple girls do that this week and then get reprimanded for not having enough family resemblance.
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Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
21 Mar. 2026
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The nose bears a family resemblance to the Ariya, and the body style is sort of a crossover, sort of a fastback sedan, depending on your frame of reference.
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Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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Clearly, their family resemblance doesn't have much to do with hair color, though the power of these two combined may convince me to go red for fall 2025.
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Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
11 Sep. 2025
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For years, fans have complained about the arbitrary judging on makeovers, where the words family resemblance are used by Michelle Visage seemingly at random.
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Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
21 Mar. 2026
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To paraphrase Tolstoy, all stable liberal democracies have a family resemblance; all failing dictatorships have maladies of their own.
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Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
4 Jan. 2026
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As far as family resemblance goes, Benjamin Travolta looks like a cross between his famous parents, and shows no sign of musical talents (unlike his sister Ella Bleu).
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Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
18 Dec. 2025
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Curiously, most all Bristol cars made from the 1946 prototype share a 114-inch wheelbase, imparting a proportional family resemblance across all models.
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Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
6 Feb. 2026
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However, the new lanthanum hydride also has revealingly peculiar magnetic properties that suggest an unexpected family resemblance to the superstar of the superconductivity world, cuprates.
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IEEE Spectrum,
8 July 2024
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A lot has happened to the Jeep since American soldiers planted a flag on Iwo Jima, but after 80 years, the family resemblance of today’s Jeep Wrangler to the original is still readily apparent, though contemporary models are thoroughly modern cars.
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Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
17 Oct. 2025
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