Definitions
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- noun Jewish An (extended)
family .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends)
Etymologies
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Examples
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In Ms. Merkin's eyes, it was "a sense of mishpocha, of being part of an extended family, but one you carefully chose rather than being arbitrarily born into."
Roger Smith: The Incestuous Merkins Produce Ethically Murky Doings at the New York Times 2009
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Clearly, these kinda-kinsmen did not choose their new mishpocha carefully enough.
Roger Smith: The Incestuous Merkins Produce Ethically Murky Doings at the New York Times 2009
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If she can learn to re-connect with the new tools -- texting, facebook, she may find that she gets to know more about her kids and the rest of her mishpocha than she ever did before.
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If she can learn to re-connect with the new tools -- texting, facebook, she may find that she gets to know more about her kids and the rest of her mishpocha than she ever did before.
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If she can learn to re-connect with the new tools -- texting, facebook, she may find that she gets to know more about her kids and the rest of her mishpocha than she ever did before.
Email's End? 2009
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The Moose wishes all of the Mooseketeer mishpocha an easy fast!
Archive 2006-10-01 2006
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The Moose wishes all of the Mooseketeer mishpocha an easy fast!
Bull Moose 2006
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Later I would learn that he had moved away from town decades before, and had only returned to be buried with his mishpocha, his relatives.
Confederacy of Silence Richard Rubin 2002
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Later I would learn that he had moved away from town decades before, and had only returned to be buried with his mishpocha, his relatives.
Confederacy of Silence Richard Rubin 2002
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Later I would learn that he had moved away from town decades before, and had only returned to be buried with his mishpocha, his relatives.
Confederacy of Silence Richard Rubin 2002
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