kissing cousins

noun

plural of kissing cousin
as in stocks

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  1. stocks
  2. races
  3. families
  4. people
  5. blood
  6. tribes
  7. houses
  8. cousins
Noun
  • Memory stocks also surged as Samsung warned the memory crunch could last into 2028.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 30 July 2026
  • The Kospi index had sunk more than 17% in the previous three days as investors dumped technology stocks in part over worries about an AI bubble and rising competition from chipmaking and AI rivals in China.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 July 2026
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  • Wheelie contests, one-on-one races and freestyle trick events filled the air with engine revs and track dirt as the drivers precariously balanced, drifted and jumped the 10,000 pound vehicles.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 26 July 2026
  • On the island, Heiva i Tahiti has been celebrated every July since, with traditional dance, drumming, singing and sports, such as javelin throwing and canoe races.
    — Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2026
Definition of races
Noun
  • After all those conversations, one thing that has become clear is that families don’t expect Washington to fix everything.
    — Kent Strang, Boston Herald, 26 July 2026
  • Treasury's default option right now is the SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF, and until families can actively choose between fund options, that's where contributions land.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
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  • 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
Noun
  • Nanos noted there was blood and other DNA found at the scene that is also still being analyzed, but has so far also yielded no results.
    — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 30 July 2026
  • The note probably wouldn’t have been legible anyway, with the constant blood dripping from my writing hand.
    — Todd Orr, Outdoor Life, 30 July 2026
Definition of blood
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  • At a convening in Santa Fe, tribes gathered to protest the Bureau of Indian Education, and among the protesters was John Rainer, a tribal leader from Taos Pueblo.
    — Laurel Donnellan, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • The deal is the latest example of environmental groups working with tribes in California and other parts of the West to restore and return property that was taken, often forcibly, as settlements grew in California in the 1700s and 1800s.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 28 July 2026
Definition of tribes
Noun
  • Some in anthropology take this further, describing houses and homes as social and symbolic spaces rather than merely physical structures.
    — Belonging Forum, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Though California is home to some of the worst cities for first-time homebuyers, there are still houses for as low as $285,000.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of houses
Noun
  • Knappman, who lives in California, coordinated with his sister in Louisiana and a pair of cousins from Maine and North Carolina to purchase a new headstone engraved with Horan’s name and the dates of her birth and death.
    — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2026
  • Scientists have long proposed that modern Homo sapiens outcompeted their robust cousins through sheer intelligence.
    — Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 20 July 2026
Definition of cousins
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