as in lineages
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 trees
Some served as family trees, each loop of hair tagged with a name.
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David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2025
However, once the series took over everyone’s TVs, some internet sleuths determined that their family trees do not cross.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
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
David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2025
However, once the series took over everyone’s TVs, some internet sleuths determined that their family trees do not cross.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
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
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The various lineages of Ursuța’s work are unmistakable.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
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While multiple human lineages have been discovered from this time, scientists have struggled to create a clear timeline.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Sep. 2025
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The box covers the most popular classes and ancestries such as humans, elves, dwarves and halflings.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Those players, with their own experiences and their own pedigrees, joined the team last year and watched a team underachieve.—
C. Trent Rosecrans,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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When employers look past pedigrees and see workers’ singular abilities, histories, and motivations, skills gaps disappear.—
Ryan Stowers,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 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
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With nearly one-third of Los Angeles County's 10 million residents being foreign-born, the declaration has significant social and economic implications, especially for immigrant and mixed-status families.—
Deputy News Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Oct. 2025
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If the president had not wasted time floating perverse ideas about real-estate opportunities in Gaza, thousands of Palestinian lives might have been saved, and more of the Israeli hostages would be in the bosom of their families.—
Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
14 Oct. 2025
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The series will essentially explore the origins of Pennywise, using the book’s five interludes as a blueprint.—
Abbey White,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Oct. 2025
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According to Vogue, it's believed that Monroe was wearing a different ring during her courthouse wedding, but its origins and whereabouts are unknown.—
Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Family trees.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/family%20trees. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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