as in lineage
the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended
a Cambodian immigrant who can trace her Khmer ancestry as far back as the 16th century
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Recent Examples of ancestry
People of Mexican ancestry who live in border counties along the Rio Grande, for example, are likely more hawkish on immigration than, say, a Dominican American in Washington Heights in NYC.
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Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
People with African ancestry tend to have high porosity hair.12
Also, people with gray hair or light-colored hair and people of older age are more likely to have highly porous hair.12
Characteristics of High Porosity Hair
High porosity hair can have various characteristics.
—Sherri Gordon, Health, 4 June 2025
Yet the themes remained disparate, with sophisticated AI integration sitting alongside retro ideas like putting ancestry records on blockchain.
—Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
The Trump administration through an executive order would make ancestry (with at least one parent a citizen or a legal U.S. resident) a criterion for citizenship.
—Thomas Wenski, Sun Sentinel, 20 May 2025
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Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
People with African ancestry tend to have high porosity hair.12
Also, people with gray hair or light-colored hair and people of older age are more likely to have highly porous hair.12
Characteristics of High Porosity Hair
High porosity hair can have various characteristics.
—Sherri Gordon, Health, 4 June 2025
Yet the themes remained disparate, with sophisticated AI integration sitting alongside retro ideas like putting ancestry records on blockchain.
—Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
The Trump administration through an executive order would make ancestry (with at least one parent a citizen or a legal U.S. resident) a criterion for citizenship.
—Thomas Wenski, Sun Sentinel, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ancestry
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The Pitfall Of Poor Data Lineage Without robust data lineage and understanding how data is created, modified and moved, security teams are hampered during breaches.—
Somnath Banerjee,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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Khomeini, who is more of a reformist and is allied with a faction that is in favor of easing social and political restrictions in Iran, garners respect because of his lineage, according to Reuters.—
Greg Norman,
FOXNews.com,
23 June 2025
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Festival highlights include a grape stomp, a wine garden, Roman encampment and swordsmanship demos, An Italian Fashion Show, a children’s zone and a cultural and culinary stage with pizza tossing, genealogy talks and gardening segments.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
15 June 2025
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The Cultural Repatriation Committee formed in 2024 and looked through public records to identify exactly who the people were and establish a genealogy, according to Baham.—
Tesfaye Negussie,
ABC News,
31 May 2025
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Enthralling and sleekly devious, this book is also a lyrical reflection on both the origin and the fate of our species.—
Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
27 June 2025
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Meanwhile, Claire and Owen are raising Maisie, keeping her as under-the-radar as possible, lest she be found and experimented on by scientists enthralled by her unique origin.—
Will Harris,
EW.com,
27 June 2025
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The interest from those schools, which had more golf pedigree?—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
27 June 2025
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Beck, who arrived after two years as Georgia’s starting quarterback, has a winning pedigree.—
Adam Lichtenstein,
Sun Sentinel,
25 June 2025
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Medical testing conducted at the Institute of Forensic Medicine determined that the baby, a girl, was likely of South American descent and was born alive.—
Michael Nied,
People.com,
24 June 2025
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According to Honda, the purpose of the flight was to demonstrate a number of key technological areas for reusable systems, including flight stability during ascent and descent, and power landing capability.—
David Szondy
June 21,
New Atlas,
21 June 2025
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Her name was not released pending notification of her family.—
Caleb Lunetta,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 July 2025
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The Goncalves family blasted the plea deal Monday evening on social media.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
1 July 2025
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By 1987, the entire species – numbering just 22 individuals – was removed from the wild and placed into captive breeding programs at a number of zoos throughout the United States.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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Since then, that number has increased to 82 breeding pairs across the Great Lakes, thanks to efforts to reintroduce captive piping plovers into the wild and conserve the plovers’ natural habitat.—
Lily Carey,
Chicago Tribune,
23 June 2025
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“Ancestry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ancestry. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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