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breedings

noun

plural of breeding
as in pedigrees
the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended a family of good breeding that is well respected in the community

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  1. pedigrees
  2. lineages
  3. ancestries
  4. genealogies
  5. bloodlines
  6. origins
Noun
  • Global flavors with local pedigrees provide the secret sauce for Seattle’s culinary scene.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The cast has become a kind of living monument to New York theater, with Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Donna Murphy, Kelli O’Hara, Audra McDonald, and many others bringing Broadway pedigrees to the series.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of pedigrees
Noun
  • The researchers have shared their findings with the IUCN, whose upcoming review will assess the five lineages separately.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2026
  • When a massive asteroid impact triggered a global extinction 66 million years ago, almost all dinosaurs and early bird lineages died out.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of lineages
Noun
  • But Shanes questioned whether grouping Jews under a single ethnic category would produce sufficiently specific data for those purposes, or instead obscure differences among Jewish populations with distinct ancestries.
    — Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • This technique overcomes limitations of older methods like genotyping arrays, which were often biased towards European ancestries and less accurate.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of ancestries
Noun
  • Sometimes, though, these genealogies of behavior can seem beside the point, serving only to dull one’s analysis of the situation.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The scientists’ method reconstructs genealogies, or maps showing where different pieces of DNA came from and how they were passed down, revealing branches of our evolutionary past.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of genealogies
Noun
  • After retrieving wild adults from several distinct bloodlines, scientists will attempt to incubate their eggs at the Wolf Lake State Fish Hatchery and then transfer the survivors to hatcheries across the state.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Many of today’s European royal families share connected bloodlines thanks to the strategic matchmaking of 19th-century monarchs like Queen Victoria and King Christian IX of Denmark.
    — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of bloodlines
Noun
  • Also, its rolling olive oil cart, replete with its own menu describing the oils’ characteristics and origins, allows passengers to sample many.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026
  • The author recently spoke with David Remnick on The New Yorker Radio Hour, about the origins of the Second Amendment.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of origins
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“Breedings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breedings. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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