heredities

noun

plural of heredity
as in genealogies
formal 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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  1. genealogies
  2. blood
  3. relatives
  4. successions
  5. family trees
  6. families
  7. races
Noun
  • Sometimes, though, these genealogies of behavior can seem beside the point, serving only to dull one’s analysis of the situation.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The scientists’ method reconstructs genealogies, or maps showing where different pieces of DNA came from and how they were passed down, revealing branches of our evolutionary past.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of genealogies
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  • The federal government was preparing to change its rules on low-value imports, threatening her ability to purchase cheaper prescription medications for blood thinning and heart failure from Canada.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Three generations of women in my family — my grandmother, my mother, my sister — carried the same condition through the same blood before any of us had a clinical word for it.
    — Miranda Pappas, STAT, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of blood
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  • Fortune has reported on scammers using voice-cloning tools to impersonate relatives since 2023.
    — Muskaan Arshad, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The changes include allowing the adoption of distant male relatives raised as commoners to become royals and father future heirs, and letting princesses keep their royal status after marrying commoners.
    — Mari Yamaguchi, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of relatives
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  • France has endured record-breaking successions of heatwaves this summer, which have led to massive wildfires and a spike in the normal death rate, according to French public health services.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Helaena, however, is not concerned with thrones or successions.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of successions
Noun
  • Kurin is also senior author of a paper describing the methods that connected the former US president to Hemings’ descendants, which involved delving deep into the genetics of the Jefferson and Hemings family trees.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Many of them supplement the text with photographs, epigraphs, glossaries, family trees, sketches, timelines, variant tables of contents, alternating fonts and notes to the reader.
    — Christopher Coffman, The Conversation, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of family trees
Noun
  • The decades-long search for answers in Amy’s case inspired the couple to help establish the nonprofit, which helps to fund unsolved homicide investigations, train investigators and support victims’ families.
    — Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The plan is to find candidates from families that renounced their royal status in 1947, which at the time was to ease the postwar financial burden on the monarchy.
    — Mari Yamaguchi, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of families
Noun
  • If the current odds in all those states hold, the Democrats would win 18 out of 35 races and shift the majority from 53-47 for the Republicans to 52-48 for the Democrats.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • In just 11 days, millions of Americans will head to the polls to vote on key local races and decide the fate of Congress.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of races
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