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Recent Examples of brotherly
Philadelphia used it five times during this game, and Hurts got a brotherly shove in scoring the touchdown on a fourth down to gave the Eagles a 20-10 lead.
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Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2025
Click the video below to see a sweet brotherly reunion filled with the kind of hug that comes with happy tears and pure joy.
—Ronnie Li, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
After the Jaguars’ 26-10 win, the brothers exchanged jerseys on the field, hugged, talked, did the ceremonial brotherly things.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2025
Liam, the brother who clearly wanted this reunion the most, and wore the inability to re-consummate the brotherly relationship like an open wound, is still given mostly to jokes on stage more than serious statements or anything that patronizes the audience.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
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Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2025
Click the video below to see a sweet brotherly reunion filled with the kind of hug that comes with happy tears and pure joy.
—Ronnie Li, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
After the Jaguars’ 26-10 win, the brothers exchanged jerseys on the field, hugged, talked, did the ceremonial brotherly things.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2025
Liam, the brother who clearly wanted this reunion the most, and wore the inability to re-consummate the brotherly relationship like an open wound, is still given mostly to jokes on stage more than serious statements or anything that patronizes the audience.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brotherly
fraternal
Adjective
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And the trickster god Elegba, Orisha of the crossroads, stands between them, a wily ex-con buddy of Oshoosi’s — not bad, not good, a Mephistophelean drifter who secretly longs for the fraternal intimacy that is his friend’s by birthright.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
11 Sep. 2025
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Along with their businesses, communities lost newspapers, fraternal halls, and churches that those profits had helped sustain.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Brotherly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brotherly. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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