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  • noun Plural form of stepsibling.

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Examples

  • "Lily has a lot of people very angry at her," says exec producer Stephanie Savage, adding that Mama Van der Woodsen's role in the wrongful imprisonment of her daughter's former teacher and attempted sale of Bass Industries will drive stepsiblings Serena (Blake Lively) and Chuck (Ed Westwick) to unite tonight for some payback.

    Gossip Girl Returns for Revenge 2011

  • The book follows two teenage stepsiblings, Ruth and Perry, through the ups and downs of school, family, and suburban restlessness -- all complicated by the insect armies, swirling visions, and haunting voices that no one else can perceive.

    Swallow Me Whole, Graveyard Book nominated for L.A. Times book prize | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • I walked into the house and was immediately assaulted by the piercing screams of my young stepsiblings.

    AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE DAVID GOODWILLIE 2010

  • Hed convinced his stepsiblings to come hunting with him despite the fact that neither of them was entirely comfortable going out on their own now that Hodge wasnt there to give them instructions.

    Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

  • Critter and Seattle are stepsiblings, but are not related by blood or by law.

    Anyone But You 2006

  • Apart from the moment when he pulls the trigger — and all the power of Richard Price's talent for characterization lies coiled inside those words "apart from" — the most telling aspect of the young killer's personality is the helpless, reflexive tenderness and diligence with which he takes care of his "hamsters," the three young ex-stepsiblings with whom the serial injustices of his life have burdened him.

    In Priceland Chabon, Michael 2008

  • Duffy's world changed when her parents divorced and she, along with her fraternal twin sister and another sister, moved to a bigger town and into a Brady Bunch-ish family of stepsiblings when her mother remarried.

    More Blue-Eyed Soul From Wales 2008

  • Hed convinced his stepsiblings to come hunting with him despite the fact that neither of them was entirely comfortable going out on their own now that Hodge wasnt there to give them instructions.

    City of Ashes Cassandra Clare 2008

  • Critter and Seattle are stepsiblings, but are not related by blood or by law.

    Archive 2006-05-01 2006

  • Rachel Cohn has a way of capturing the quickly shifting landscape of feelings anyone has to go through the first worst time of meeting a parent's new spouse and the stepsiblings.

    The WritingYA Weblog: 48 Hour Book Challenge: C'mon, Get Happy... tanita davis 2007

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