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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Murphy, Jamie, and the rest of the O'Brien clan will be here for Thanksgiving.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Most people want many sons because they carry on the family line and that means our clan can claim more land.
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My own family was at once strongly nuclear and part of what can only be called a clan .
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Several clans made up a tribe, although there appears to have been no central leadership except in times of war.
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Tell him we will go upriver, to the Cheng clan in the Su Sung Tai.
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The branches of the hierarchical tree hide this secret organisation with its inner clan of unknown lieutenants possessing mythical powers.
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The scullions sweated and ducked at the spits and bake-ovens built around the exercise ground for the clan to feast.
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War and isolation have proved an ideal breeding ground for corruption and feuding between rival political clans.