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  1. co-in-lawnoun

    A distant in-law: A relationship by marriage with a separation by three degrees (two people), compared to prototypical in-laws, where the separation is two/one. The separation may be two degrees of blood kin and one of marriage (addressing the mother of the husband of one's daughter) or one degree blood and two of marriage (addressing the wife of the brother of one's husband).

    Depending on context, the term may be understood to mean specifically co-sibling-in-law, or co-parent-in-law.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of co-in-law in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of co-in-law in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of co-in-law in a Sentence

  1. Dalton Vos:

    Between my mother, my mother-in-law and my husband,we will do everything we can in our power to help find something because we know how that feels first hand.

  2. Andres Bautista:

    He hacked the web site because he wanted the Comelec to comply with all the provisions of the law.

  3. Chad Wolf:

    Instead of working with @ICEgov enforce the law, local officials in Mecklenberg County, NC decided it would be better to give these criminals' sanctuary' so they could go back out on the streets — where they were free to reoffend until ICE arrested them.

  4. Irek Hamidullin:

    As a Muslim, I don’t accept your law. I don't acknowledge this court.

  5. Jeffrey Toobin:

    Their products never violated any existing law, because the emission of carbon in the atmosphere was not, and still is not, illegal.


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