as in pedigrees
the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended
came from a bloodline that could be traced back to the 12th century
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Recent Examples of bloodlines
Two Runner is buttressed by a cavalcade of boisterously rootsy country acts all deeply versed in their genre’s bloodlines, who freely celebrate them with aplomb.
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Aaron Davis, Sacbee.com, 29 May 2026
And Sugano’s baseball bloodlines run ever deeper.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 23 May 2026
Can the capacity to commit horrific acts be passed through bloodlines?
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 15 May 2026
Roush has the smarts and the bloodlines.
—Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 13 May 2026
Jordan Chiles at 25 years old has singularly accomplished more professionally to date than some entire family bloodlines.
—Marquise Francis, NBC news, 9 May 2026
As noted in a press release from Safari Park, the animals, first brought to Europe from Kenya by zoologist Josef Vágner in the '70s, all carry the bloodlines from their native land.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
The theory of the great replacement is that elites, or, depending on who told the story, Jews (not commonly a direct target of VDARE), have invited nonwhite immigrants with inferior bloodlines into white- dominated Western countries to weaken them and absorb more power for themselves.
—Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026
Power always revolves around the bloodlines, networks, fears, likes, and dislikes of the principals.
—Michael Sheridan, Vanity Fair, 8 Apr. 2026
Aaron Davis, Sacbee.com, 29 May 2026
And Sugano’s baseball bloodlines run ever deeper.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 23 May 2026
Can the capacity to commit horrific acts be passed through bloodlines?
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 15 May 2026
Roush has the smarts and the bloodlines.
—Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 13 May 2026
Jordan Chiles at 25 years old has singularly accomplished more professionally to date than some entire family bloodlines.
—Marquise Francis, NBC news, 9 May 2026
As noted in a press release from Safari Park, the animals, first brought to Europe from Kenya by zoologist Josef Vágner in the '70s, all carry the bloodlines from their native land.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
The theory of the great replacement is that elites, or, depending on who told the story, Jews (not commonly a direct target of VDARE), have invited nonwhite immigrants with inferior bloodlines into white- dominated Western countries to weaken them and absorb more power for themselves.
—Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026
Power always revolves around the bloodlines, networks, fears, likes, and dislikes of the principals.
—Michael Sheridan, Vanity Fair, 8 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodlines
Noun
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The candidates have performed in a way that embodies their entertainment pedigrees.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
6 June 2026
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And despite their noticeably different contract situations and pedigrees, the pair of new arrivals have worked together within the same position room over the past few weeks.—
Mike Kaye,
Charlotte Observer,
2 June 2026
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Her fiction concentrates thematically upon the emotional and psychological currents traversing the bonds across lineages — whether those connections are well-wrought, addled, severed, or unknown — and the fraught business of familial inheritance.—
Rachel Vorona Cote,
Vulture,
2 June 2026
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Crocodilian ancestors have persisted through mass extinctions, dramatic climate shifts and ecological upheavals that have eradicated countless other lineages.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Eastern and western ancestries in Karelian Mesolithic dogs suggest that two lineages diverged during the Paleolithic.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Mar. 2026
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That drops to 49% for Hispanic/Latino patients, 29% for Black patients and even lower for mixed ancestries, the NMDP reports.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
20 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The seal texts often introduced the owners with their names, genealogies, gender, professions and hometowns.—
Serdar Yalçin,
The Conversation,
3 Nov. 2025
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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
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While season 1 unveils the cult's origins and delves into the involvement of major key players (including Smallville actress Allison Mack, who, in July 2023, was released a year early from her three-year sentencing), season 2 shifts its focus to Raniere's court trial.—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 June 2026
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The group brought together different professions, generations, styles, and geographic origins.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
4 June 2026
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“Bloodlines.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodlines. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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