as in genealogies
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the natural process by which physical and mental qualities are passed from a parent to a child
Heredity plays no part in the disease.
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Noun
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The seal texts often introduced the owners with their names, genealogies, gender, professions and hometowns.—
Serdar Yalçin,
The Conversation,
3 Nov. 2025 -
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
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The guys have put in blood, sweat and tears to develop a top-four defense two weeks ago.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2026
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Tests done after the trial, when the men were appealing their convictions, showed the stains were not blood.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2026
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With nothing left to do and with no other relatives known, Hereford made arrangements for his wife’s burial at Greenwood Cemetery in Fort Worth.—
Kevin Foster,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Mar. 2026
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Pluto is in your supportive 4th house, guiding conversations with housemates or relatives about necessary shifts.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
28 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Everyone—prospective leaders, the target company, the investors and the local community—can benefit from this approach, according to YMFG Capital, which has orchestrated 12 business successions so far.—
Japan Contributor,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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For authoritarian regimes, survival is uncertain, and never more so than during inescapable successions.—
Stephen Kotkin,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Unfortunately, those answers often appear directly in public family trees.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
18 Mar. 2026
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As family trees expand, more stakeholders enter the conversation, and priorities can diverge.—
Belinda G. Schwartz,
Fortune,
7 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Our families had to wait until democracy was restored in 1999 before asking the government to locate the grave.—
Noo Saro-Wiwa,
The Dial,
24 Mar. 2026
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Buchsbaum described a mid-20th-century American Jewish landscape in which nearly every community had kosher butchers and caterers because even many non-Orthodox families expected bar mitzvahs, weddings and other celebrations to be kosher.—
Asaf Elia-Shalev,
Sun Sentinel,
23 Mar. 2026
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The ads target safe Republican seats and most competitive races, including Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, and New Hampshire.—
Ramsey Touchberry,
The Washington Examiner,
26 Mar. 2026
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Although state legislative races rarely get the national spotlight, Democrats across the country were positively euphoric at the irony of their Republican nemesis being represented by one of their own.—
BILL BARROW,
Arkansas Online,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Heredities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heredities. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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