Synonyms for FOLKS
folks

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1. folksnoun

   your parents

   "he wrote to his folks every day"

   Synonyms:
   common people, folk

2. folk, folks, common peoplenoun

   people in general (often used in the plural)

   "they're just country folk"; "folks around here drink moonshine"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next"

   Synonyms:
   common people, kinsfolk, tribe, sept, family line, kinfolk, folk music, phratry, ethnic music, folk, folks, family

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1. folksnoun

   Synonyms:
   [Colloquial.] people, persons

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1. folksnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Collog.) people, persons

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1. List of paraphrases for "folks":

   parents, friends, guys, people, fellas

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1. Gary Peters:

   I’m not sure who the Republicans will put forward as their nominees, but normally the folks who get to determine who the nominee is are the voters in those individual states in the primaries, if we look at what happened last cycle, those primary voters tended to pick highly flawed candidates, and I expect that will happen again.

2. Ben Sasse:

   We Republicans have a choice to make : We can either continue to drift as a party that exists as a vehicle for the grievances of the angriest, oldest folks, or we can be the future-focused party of 2030 -- with policies centered on the future of work and the future of war.

3. David Cameron:

   We really value a strong United Kingdom in a strong EU because we see eye to eye ... on the important issues of the challenges we face, from a selfish point of view it's a really good thing, but it is entirely up to you folks to figure out your relationship with and within Europe.

4. Mohamed Soltan:

   I think this administration has been at work on these issues. I think they've been very effective at bringing Americans home and I would like to see a lot more being done on the Egypt cases, there's a lot of people in this administration that have a good relationship with Sisi and Michael Page folks, but I think that they need to use that leverage and pressure the Egyptian government and bring these Americans home.

5. Lucy Solomon:

   The Morse campaign has done a really good job of turning an incredibly difficult situation into a positive for their campaign, but obviously, a lot of folks on (the independent expenditure) side paused their ads right when the letter came out, to figure out what was really happening here, and so those are missed communications with voters.