as in ancestry
the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended
his family tree includes writers, musical composers, and other notables in the arts
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Recent Examples of family tree
Tatum won that tug-of-war, but the alternate-universe version of the Kardashian family tree now lives rent-free in fans’ minds.
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Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2026
So while Acanthochitona feroxa is newly described by science, its family tree reaches deep into the past.
—Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2026
On various branches of Carrick’s family tree, there is football.
—Michael Walker, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
Virtually every previous Scream film has revealed whole new branches of the various characters’ family trees, and this one is no exception.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2026
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Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2026
So while Acanthochitona feroxa is newly described by science, its family tree reaches deep into the past.
—Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2026
On various branches of Carrick’s family tree, there is football.
—Michael Walker, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
Virtually every previous Scream film has revealed whole new branches of the various characters’ family trees, and this one is no exception.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for family tree
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Also titled ‘Bounty’, the book will feature all 47 images from the exhibition, which was based around meditative photos McQueen took of the beautiful flora native to the Caribbean island of Grenada, where the artist-filmmaker has ancestry.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
20 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
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Beta Film has some royal lineage, with Dutch series Máxima proving popular.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
24 Mar. 2026
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As suspicion spreads, the series follows the fractures inside a family built on lineage, property and control.—
Emiliano de Pablos,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2026
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The cold case was broken in 2024 when DNA from genetic genealogy connected Gale to the rapes.—
Neal Riley,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Once that happens, your family details no longer live only on a genealogy website.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
18 Mar. 2026
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Advice columnist Carolyn Hax takes your comments and questions most Fridays about life, family, relationships and more.—
Carolyn Hax,
Washington Post,
27 Mar. 2026
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In an email sent to families on Tuesday afternoon, the Park Hill School District identified Walker as the woman killed in the crash that left four other teenagers injured.—
Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
25 Mar. 2026
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This productivity is why so many birds depend on grasslands for their breeding or wintering.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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The poisoning of a champion stallion opens an investigation that starts to expose tensions and secrets inside an aristocratic horse breeding dynasty.—
Emiliano de Pablos,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2026
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Her book also sheds new light on the origins of Steinem’s most passionate beliefs—from a childhood rat bite that opened her eyes to the dangers of poverty to her attendance at the 1970 Women’s Strike for Equality that honored the right to vote.—
Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
25 Mar. 2026
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Leadership teams and emerging executives should understand the origins of their industry.—
Sudhir Gupta,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2026
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The eight-part series certainly has a strong pedigree.—
Jon O'Brien,
IndieWire,
19 Mar. 2026
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The attendant buzz and pedigree suggest an Un Certain Regard birth or sidebar placement for this one.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Mar. 2026
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Hiroyuki Sanada became the first Japanese actor to win the Emmy for Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and Anna Sawai made history as the first actress of Asian descent to win Lead Actress in the same category.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
23 Mar. 2026
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To claim a straight line of descent from a father’s grief for a work as multifaceted as Hamlet is to mistake a labyrinth for a corridor.—
Rhoda Feng,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2026
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“Family tree.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/family%20tree. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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