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Meanings of distant relative in English

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Usage of distant relative in English
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The Kremlin has confirmed he is a distant relative of the president.
Reuters
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The last accident was the arrival of one Frankh, a distant relative.
Haydn
3
George, they concluded, must have inherited his gifts from some distant relative.
Paths of glory
4
Washington's general manager during the Revolution was Lund Washington, a distant relative.
George Washington: Farmer / Being an Account of His Home Life an...
5
Jessica Dearwood, an orphan, had been brought up by a distant relative.
The Philosopher's Joke
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He was a distant relative of grandmother's and he was a Poet.
The Story Girl
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Chapman, who died of cholera, was a distant relative of my man.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1
8
He, too, was staying with Madame Delaunay, who was a distant relative.
The Guns of Bull Run: A Story of the Civil War's Eve
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The paragraph concluded: By his death the title passes to a distant relative.
The Man
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As you know from reading it, Wright had a distant relative in Gainesville.
A knife edge
11
He started in life with five thousand dollars- alegacyfrom a distant relative.
Finger Posts on the Way of Life
12
Fanny Jane was a distant relative of the Grants of Woodville.
Hope and Have; or, Fanny Grant Among the Indians: A Story for Yo...
13
The only young man he tolerated about the place was a distant relative.
Dangerous Days
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As it was, it went to a distant relative, and we received nothing.
Old Fritz and the New Era
15
The betaherpesvirus appeared to be a distant relative of human cytomegalovirus.
Pubmed
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I asked, for I remembered I had a distant relative of that name.
The Pomp of Yesterday
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
Common