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Meanings of clan (clans) in English
Organized group of video game players.
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Examples for "tribe"
Examples for "tribe"
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Tribal governments decide how land and resources are allotted among tribe members.
2
Each tribe's solution to its central problem is a brilliant, hard-won advance.
3
Survival International, an indigenous tribe advocacy group, says the situation is dire.
4
Oklahoma Native American tribe sues energy companies for quake damage PAWNEE, Okla.
5
I thought, therefore, that she should get to know my tribe better.
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Police were working to identify the victims and contact next of kin.
2
In that case, I would be obligated to your kin, of course.
3
The kin had reportedly brought several weapons with him, including a machete.
4
Gujarati authorities have pledged financial assistance to the victims' next of kin.
5
In four cases, genetic test results were disclosed to next of kin.
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Let us embrace our fellow animals as the kindred spirits they are.
2
Their affections had taken deep root together in many a kindred grave.
3
Nothing is more hallowing than the union of kindred spirits in art.
4
The spirit of youth in him was crying out for kindred companionship.
5
After them the flame worshippers and other kindred religions of the East.
1
Land was held by a kin group, the descendants of an immediate ancestor.
2
The rest of the kin group trailed them, and the whole crowd of Cave members and guests brought up the rear.
3
The article provides the reader increased insight on the obligations that AIDS caregiving has imposed on women within the close kin group of the patient.
4
As colonisation displaced historic Māori tribal groupings, many are the kin groups that have disappeared into the mist of history assimilated by different tribal names.
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I fail to find a trace of matriarchy or patriarchy, or any mark of a kinship group which traces relationship farther than first cousins.
2
An Indian tribe is composed of a number of kinship groups or clans.
3
Kinship groups; totem kins; phratries.
4
This dual rule of descent brings us face to face with the question of how membership of kinship groups is determined.
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It long been understood that this requires us to look at kinship groups when thinking about the reproductive success of those genes.
Usage of clans in English
1
That's why the warrior clans needed to keep their young men fighting.
2
You must be able to harness the power of all the clans.
3
It is also home to nomad clans disaffected with rule from Cairo.
4
As I said, Yugash is divided into and ruled by business clans.
5
Both men come from long-ruling clans which, in the Philippines, means everything.
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Since Krega would not pay the blood-price, the clans went to war.
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The battle was the clans' last stand, just as the myth states.
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But then that is normal for this particular gathering of the clans.
9
The women wore the great power among the clans, as everywhere else.
10
The Andrea Ferrara-marked broadsword blades of the clans were of foreign manufacture.
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She was thinking about the hunt reenactments made by the different clans.
12
Attempts have been made to raise the clans in Scotland, but unsuccessfully.
13
This is not to say that Somali clans have not united before.
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He was sure that report was running, even now, through the clans.
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If I do, my support might turn the other clans against you.
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Also, the geography of the anti-Soviet war sidelined Kandahar and its clans.
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