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Recent Examples of grandsire
Daemon insults young Tully by wishing his absent grandsire a hasty trip to the grave.
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Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 7 July 2024
As her grandsire Corlys (Steve Toussaint) settles in as the Hand of the Queen, Rhaenyra brings Queensguard Ser Steffon Darklyn (Anthony Flanagan) before the council.
—Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 22 July 2024
He was renamed Honor A.P. as a tribute to his grandsire, A.P. Indy, who died in February at the age of 30.
—Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2020
Writhing in pain, Rhaenyra tells her boys that their grandsire has died and Aegon has been crowned king.
—Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 23 Oct. 2022
With 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew and 1992 Belmont winner A.P. Indy part of his pedigree, Tapit also is the grandsire of last year’s shorter Belmont winner, Tiz the Law.
—Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 5 June 2021
Sir Winston joined his dam sire, Afleet Alex, and one of his great-grandsires Affirmed as winners of the Belmont Stakes.
—Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al.com, 8 June 2019
Sir Winston's maternal grandsire is 2005 Belmont winner Afleet Alex.
—John Cherwa, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
His great grandsire is Seattle Slew, a Triple Crown winner in 1977.
—Neil Greenberg, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 7 July 2024
As her grandsire Corlys (Steve Toussaint) settles in as the Hand of the Queen, Rhaenyra brings Queensguard Ser Steffon Darklyn (Anthony Flanagan) before the council.
—Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 22 July 2024
He was renamed Honor A.P. as a tribute to his grandsire, A.P. Indy, who died in February at the age of 30.
—Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2020
Writhing in pain, Rhaenyra tells her boys that their grandsire has died and Aegon has been crowned king.
—Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 23 Oct. 2022
With 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew and 1992 Belmont winner A.P. Indy part of his pedigree, Tapit also is the grandsire of last year’s shorter Belmont winner, Tiz the Law.
—Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 5 June 2021
Sir Winston joined his dam sire, Afleet Alex, and one of his great-grandsires Affirmed as winners of the Belmont Stakes.
—Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al.com, 8 June 2019
Sir Winston's maternal grandsire is 2005 Belmont winner Afleet Alex.
—John Cherwa, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
His great grandsire is Seattle Slew, a Triple Crown winner in 1977.
—Neil Greenberg, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandsire
Noun
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The bay colt’s sire is Curlin, a back-to-back Horse of the Year (2007-08) who retired as the highest money earner in North America.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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Second in the 2025 Blue Grass Stakes Fun Fact: Medaglia d’Oro, East Avenue’s sire, raced in all three Triple Crown races in 2002, finishing fourth in the Kentucky Derby, eighth in the Preakness and second in the Belmont.—
Greg Rosenstein,
NBC news,
2 May 2025
Noun
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Tensions between the two sides came to a head in 1054, when Leo and the patriarch of Constantinople, Michael Cerularius, excommunicated each other.—
Ellen Wexler,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 May 2025
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Rahul Kohli is also set to portray Ed Patil, along with David Morse as the family patriarch Harris Sinclair.—
Julia Moore,
People.com,
6 May 2025
Noun
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The intersection of these two facts does convince me that William's genealogical ancestress, Eliza Kewark, did have South Asian ancestry (not totally surprising even in notionally ethnically distinct groups like Armenians or Parsis who have been long resident in India).—
Razib Khan,
Discover Magazine,
14 June 2013
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Instead of being a reticulated mesh the genealogy of mtDNA is a clean and inverted elegant tree leading back to a common ancestress.—
Razib Khan,
Discover Magazine,
17 Nov. 2010
Noun
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My own grandmother recently passed in that home, so just honoring that.—
Karla Marie Sanford,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2025
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One memory that lingers is shopping with her grandmother, when she was allowed to pick just one treat.—
Nasha Smith,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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“Grandsire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandsire. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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