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COUSINS
Definition of COUSINS
noun
The American intelligence services (from a British perspective) or the British intelligence services (from an American perspective).
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Where it comes from
From cousin + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, regular plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular indicative present tense forms of verbs). The plural noun noun 1 sense 1 (“American or British intelligence services”) was popularized in the works of the English author John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell; 1930–2020).
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, COUSIN · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COUSINS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COUSINS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CINOSSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Words that start COUSIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COUSINS?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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