siblings
brothers and sisters
TRANSLATION
siblings = die Geschwister --- GOOGLE INDEX siblings: approximately 16,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Research suggests that SIBLING rivalry is more common when they are close in age.
(The Guardian Unlimited)
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Best friends are the SIBLINGS that God forgot to give us.
- anonymous quote
(The Guardian Unlimited)
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Best friends are the SIBLINGS that God forgot to give us.
- anonymous quote
Did you
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sibling
noun
- a brother or sister
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Sibling was the Old English word for "relative or kinsman;" in other words anyone related by blood. In the early 20th century the field of anthropology revived it to describe a brother or sister.
Researchers long ago discovered that for medical transplants, siblings are generally the best donor candidates because they usually share the closest genetic make-up. For this reason, in some countries scientists and doctors use a controversial procedure called the "saviour sibling" to treat children with blood diseases.
The process involves selecting in-vitro fertilized embryos that are an ideal tissue match for a sick sibling. Once the saviour sibling is born, stem cells can be taken from its bone marrow and transplanted into a sibling who suffers from a blood disease such as leukaemia or anaemia.
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Growing up with lots of siblings is often a blessing and sometimes a curse."
noun
- a brother or sister
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Sibling was the Old English word for "relative or kinsman;" in other words anyone related by blood. In the early 20th century the field of anthropology revived it to describe a brother or sister.
Researchers long ago discovered that for medical transplants, siblings are generally the best donor candidates because they usually share the closest genetic make-up. For this reason, in some countries scientists and doctors use a controversial procedure called the "saviour sibling" to treat children with blood diseases.
The process involves selecting in-vitro fertilized embryos that are an ideal tissue match for a sick sibling. Once the saviour sibling is born, stem cells can be taken from its bone marrow and transplanted into a sibling who suffers from a blood disease such as leukaemia or anaemia.
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Growing up with lots of siblings is often a blessing and sometimes a curse."
