family trees

plural of family tree

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of family trees For a year and a half, the detectives first approached a large volume of low-match DNA results which could be traced back to existing American family trees. Claire Lempert, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2025 The organization works with law enforcement agencies nationwide, using volunteer investigative genetic genealogists to build extensive family trees and trace DNA matches. Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025 Soon the coffee table was strewn with newspaper clippings, family trees, and maps of the land. Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for family trees
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
  • The box covers the most popular classes and ancestries such as humans, elves, dwarves and halflings.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 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
  • Despite the potential dangers, some young users and their families say trying the controversial therapy is preferable to being stuck in the status quo.
    Rachel Hale, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Jenkins, a former Brevard County school board member and speech pathologist, released a launch video casting herself as a fighter for working families, drawing on her own experience working multiple jobs to make ends meet.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 10 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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“Family trees.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/family%20trees. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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