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Use "whanau" in a sentence
""I honestly thought it was a whanau thing so I asked which family they belonged to, but they wouldn't say.""
"Somewhere you will find articles in which Maori speakers complain that terms like iwi, hapu and whanau all tribal/kinship terms are being misused as the straitjacket of the law imposes narrower, more Anglosaxon boundaries on their usage."
""Many whanau and friends were able to farewell Carmen in Sydney and this is an opportunity for people in New Zealand to do the same," he told Stuff.co.nz."