It is a very close cousin to quark, which usually, but not always, has at least a little bit of fat.

Fall is a rumor here, a close cousin to summer.

Is this the group from which we'll search for our heroes, or their close cousins, role models?

She doesn't dare drive the 200 miles to Houston to visit a close cousin.

There were also bans against mating with certain people, such as close cousins.

The 'white city' announces a culture excitingly different from that of its close cousins across the water.

He was away when a close cousin died of cancer.

How can competition be looked at as a close cousin to cooperation?

I could hardly refuse to take a question from a close cousin across the water.

But he did find plenty of work in its close cousin, live television, during that medium's early years.