sisterhoods

Definition of sisterhoodsnext
plural of sisterhood
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Noun
  • The Taylors plan to expand their label to include more university clothing, host events when the game day collection drops and do pop-ups at sororities.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 6 May 2026
  • Partners have included Sage, PepsiCo, JPMorgan Chase and the Divine Nine, where the organization invested $250,000 across four sororities to support about 20 founders.
    Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The court recommended that the petition be dismissed, and that the organizations be given one month to submit the employee lists.
    Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 15 May 2026
  • The tech giant has also committed to investments in schools and nonprofit organizations in Richland Parish, as well as more than $300 million to help improve local infrastructure, from roads to wastewater management.
    Jake Angelo, Fortune, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • Over this week, 61 Catholic brotherhoods snake through the city along the official parade route to Seville's Gothic cathedral and then back to their home churches.
    Alexis Marshall, NPR, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Those meaningful bonds, or brotherhoods, are constantly at risk of being curtailed.
    Sam Blum, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • But what about our societies now?
    Clem Chambers, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • Pratchett uses both characters to explore the gap between true leadership and mere politicking, suggesting that societies need ideals of justice but frown on the people who step up to enforce them.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 24 May 2026
Noun
  • Indeed, many colleges and universities have been roiled by frequent antisemitic incidents, Title VI antisemitism investigations and dismal grades from antisemitism watchdogs.
    Debra Newman Kamin, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026
  • This year, as was true at many colleges and universities, our commencement exercises fell on Mother's Day.
    Matthew Scogin, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
Noun
  • Some time after the group formed, Mellencamp signed on as the band’s second singer and performed with them at school dances, sock hops, fraternities, and battle of the bands competitions.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Numerous other fraternities and a handful of sororities have received probation and warnings for hazing in the period from 2018 through the spring 2025 semester.
    Matthew Kelly April 23, Kansas City Star, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • These are associations across multiple studies, not clinical guarantees, but the directional signal is consistent.
    Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 20 May 2026
  • Instead, private entities known as state guaranty associations collect money from insurers to cover policyholders’ losses.
    Gretchen Morgenson, NBC news, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • And the issue with that is that political parties and political institutions have been in decay across the Western world for decades.
    Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2026
  • Public-health institutions globally emerged weakened and politically polarized.
    Steve Brozak, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
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“Sisterhoods.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sisterhoods. Accessed 27 May. 2026.

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