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Three Sisters

American  

noun

  1. a play (1901) by Anton Chekhov.


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Born in New Jersey and raised in West Palm Beach, Fla., the singer grew up in a devoutly Christian Cuban household, the middle child of three sisters.

From Los Angeles Times

Keaton plays Lenny McGrath — the oldest of three sisters — in this 1986 black comedy also starring Diane Lange and Sissy Spacek.

From Los Angeles Times

She and her three sisters once shared a six-bedroom house with their families, a multigenerational solution to Maui’s steep housing costs.

From Salon

Mahmoud, who lives with his wife, parents, and three sisters, does not know whether any of them will be able to join him if he is evacuated.

From BBC

"The boat was dangerously overcrowded, it was pitch-dark, water was flooding in, people were panicking. In that chaos, it was impossible to see that the three sisters, sitting deep inside the boat, had already drowned. When the survivors realised, it was sheer horror," she added.

From BBC