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Recent Examples of ancestral
Most of the Bhutanese who immigrated to America are historically from the south of Bhutan, and have deeper ancestral ties to Nepal and India than to Bhutan’s Buddhist majority.
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Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Old wounds, past-life patterns, ancestral grief — Pluto’s digging it all up.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 29 Apr. 2025
Usha is the daughter of Indian immigrants, with ancestral roots in Vadluru village, West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India.
—Wwd Staff, Footwear News, 21 Apr. 2025
Without guardrails, these systems scrape, remix, and reproduce sacred imagery, ceremonial language, and ancestral designs — usually without consent or context.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
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Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Old wounds, past-life patterns, ancestral grief — Pluto’s digging it all up.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 29 Apr. 2025
Usha is the daughter of Indian immigrants, with ancestral roots in Vadluru village, West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India.
—Wwd Staff, Footwear News, 21 Apr. 2025
Without guardrails, these systems scrape, remix, and reproduce sacred imagery, ceremonial language, and ancestral designs — usually without consent or context.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ancestral
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Photo of the day: Chicagoans pack pews to celebrate South Side pope Rome, the ancient city and historic home of the Catholic Church, felt close to the South Side on Sunday as Chicagoans were still grasping the reality that a son of the neighborhood had become pope, the first American ever.—
Jane Onyanga-Omara,
USA Today,
13 May 2025
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Charlotte’s 30-8 shot differential was impressive and historic.—
Richard Walker,
Charlotte Observer,
12 May 2025
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This Staub Ceramic Dinnerware 12-piece stoneware place settings branded with the Staub logo on each piece are a great mix of modern design and old-world craftsmanship.—
Nora Colomer
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FOXNews.com,
2 May 2025
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The venue blends old-world charm with modern luxury, offering multiple dining environments, a vast rare tequila collection, a solarium, and picturesque gardens.—
Erica Wertheim Zohar,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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Drive around the island and catch glimpses of past civilizations: ancient fig trees propped up by wooden crutches; centuries-old windmills that look like giant antique flyswatters; stone walls built by the Moors during the Middle Ages that somehow still look new.—
Julia Chaplin,
Travel + Leisure,
13 May 2025
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The photo highlights the relative youth of human civilization by showing a 2,500-year-old temple that is ancient by the yardstick of human lives, alongside the 4.5 billion-year-old disk of Earth's moon, which has watched over humanity since our ancestors emerged from the oceans.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
13 May 2025
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Listen to old-time music, celebrate the Man of Steel, dig for dinosaur bones, hunt for Easter eggs or save lives by giving blood.—
John Coffren,
Baltimore Sun,
17 Apr. 2025
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This is a vast overturning of the old-time natural language processing (NLP) that used to be stilted and awkward to use, which has been shifted into a new version of NLP fluency of an at times startling or amazing caliber.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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The Presidents Cup, the PGA Championship, this is a major historical legacy for sports here in this city.—
Shane Connuck,
Charlotte Observer,
13 May 2025
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To reach that goal, historical accuracy had to be built into every stage of the plotline.—
Jaha Nailah Avery,
Essence,
13 May 2025
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The children’s parents — identified as a 53-year-old German man and his 48-year-old American wife, who also owned a German passport — were arrested and charged with domestic violence with habitual psychological abuse and child abandonment, according to police, per ABC.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
People.com,
1 May 2025
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And as a habitual transgressor of rules and norms, Trump seems unlikely to stick to any parameters that might mitigate the conflicts among great powers that would inevitably crop up.—
Stacie E. Goddard,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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Of course, the new standard will be backward-compatible with Wi-Fi 6 devices, as well as older Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) and Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n) ones.—
Iyaz Akhtar,
PC Magazine,
13 May 2025
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Applicants must be 6 years or older as of the beginning of Oct. 4 to participate.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 May 2025
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“Ancestral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ancestral. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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