ancestries

plural of ancestry

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Recent Examples of ancestries The box covers the most popular classes and ancestries such as humans, elves, dwarves and halflings. Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ancestries
Noun
  • Slavers didn’t keep records of family lineages and the enslaved couldn’t do so.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Mingling and interbreeding Modern humans and Neanderthals share an ancestor that originated in Africa, but the two lineages diverged at least 500,000 years ago.
    Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Behind Chalet Alpina are two development teams with impressive pedigrees.
    Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Transcripts, grammars, vocabularies, dictionaries, glyph studies, botanical studies, commentaries, articles, editions of codices, correspondence, maps, charts, drawings, photographs, Maya Society materials, genealogies of Maya families, and Mayan glyphs on moveable type.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The origins of Godzilla’s name may remain a mystery, but there are no secrets related to its film escapades.
    Michael Taube, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Since pivoting from black and pinto beans to roasted and ground ones, Niccol has been trying to reverse Starbucks’s falling sales by returning to its coffeehouse origins.
    Molly Liebergall, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Ancestries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ancestries. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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