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Popular woman almost gets to sleep around in relationship (7)

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I believe the answer is:

kinship

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'relationship' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'popular woman almost gets to sleep around' is the wordplay.
'popular' becomes 'in'.
'woman almost' becomes 'sh' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'gets' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'to sleep' becomes 'kip' ('kip' can be a synonym of 'sleep').
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'in'+'sh'='insh'
'insh' placed within 'kip' is 'KINSHIP'.

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for kinship that I've seen before include "Affinity" , "Having relations with" , "Blood relationship" , "Blood tie" , "Close connection marked by interests, similarity in nature, or character" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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