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relations
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a person who is related to someone by blood or marriage
- Grandma always hosts family gatherings for all our relations.
- She's my cousin; we're relations through our fathers.
- Uncle Joe is a distant relation on my mother's side.
- He's a relation of the royal family, albeit distant.
- The family tree shows how all our relations are connected.
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the way two or multiple things or people are connected
- The relation between diet and health is well-documented in scientific research.
- There is a strong relation between hard work and success in most fields of study.
- The book explores the relation between human behavior and social structures.
- Their relation as siblings has always been very close, filled with mutual support and understanding.
- The teacher explained the relation between the two mathematical concepts to help the students grasp the topic.
3
sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur
4
(usually plural) the mutual interactions or connections established between individuals or groups
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(law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time
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an act of narration
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