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  • noun Plural form of sib.

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Examples

  • I was a first child, but the kid I just took to college was my last, so he had the benefit of the wisdom of his elders sibs, that is as well as the smarts to listen to them, so his stuff fit easily into the van.

    Thirty Years: Then and Now 1 Dinosaur 2007

  • I was a first child, but the kid I just took to college was my last, so he had the benefit of the wisdom of his elders sibs, that is as well as the smarts to listen to them, so his stuff fit easily into the van.

    Archive 2007-08-01 1 Dinosaur 2007

  • You can always spot them right after the 8: 45 school bus picks up the older "sibs".

    Lowell Sun Forum 2009

  • You can always spot them right after the 8: 45 school bus picks up the older "sibs".

    Lowell Sun Forum 2009

  • You can always spot them right after the 8: 45 school bus picks up the older "sibs".

    Lowell Sun Forum 2009

  • You can always spot them right after the 8: 45 school bus picks up the older "sibs".

    Lowell Sun Forum 2009

  • You can always spot them right after the 8: 45 school bus picks up the older "sibs".

    Lowell Sun Forum 2009

  • And as for my larger family - my eight sibs, my parents and I - we are learning that, despite our numbers, we are not invincible.

    Falling Water aka TBTAM 2009

  • Ned Stark once again refuses to let another do his dirty work: "She deserves better than a butcher," he says of Lady, and as he puts the wolf down, her scattered sibs howl — including the beast left behind at Winterfell who helped save bed-ridden Bran from an assassin.

    Matt's TV Week in Review: A Wedding, A Farewell, and More! 2011

  • For my father Dieter's 40th birthday, my sibs and I baked a carrot cake; I was nine years old.

    Marina Cashdan: Exhibition Spotlight: Dieter Roth, Björn Roth, Work Tables & Tischmatten Marina Cashdan 2010

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