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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Not to mention the titular bugs, a swarm of blood-invading creatures discovered by her new lover, the mysterious drifter Peter Evans (Namir Smallwood).—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Jan. 2026
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Movies themselves are often the thing that keep your brain ticking, your heart pumping, that keep the oxygen in your blood to keep you fit as much as going to any gym.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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Truman had been shunted off to relatives and marked as an outsider from the beginning.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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Mourners react after the death of their relatives following a powerful gas cylinder explosion at a wedding function in a neighborhood of Islamabad on January 11, 2026.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
12 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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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Through shows like Finding Your Roots and 2 Lies & a Leaf, and with the latest advancements in genealogical studies, many A-listers have delved into their family trees and learned about their distant relatives.—
Brendan Le,
PEOPLE,
6 Jan. 2026
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Some served as family trees, each loop of hair tagged with a name.—
David Hudnall,
Kansas City Star,
6 Oct. 2025
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Join me in praying for the victims of such senseless violence and all the families of this church.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Jan. 2026
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Over the past year, families told the Statesman that their school districts have failed to identify and evaluate their children for special education and follow the programs to educate them fairly.—
Becca Savransky,
Idaho Statesman,
8 Jan. 2026
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The latter category is expected to include a number of titles that prognosticators believe will factor into a number of top races, following the Academy's active recruitment of international industry representatives to diversify ranks.—
Eric Henderson,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
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The last six races of the day at Gulfstream on Pegasus Day are all Stakes races with five of the races featuring full twelve horse fields and the other race has nine horses.—
Danny Brewer,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Heredities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heredities. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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