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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Ebola is a highly contagious and often fatal disease spread through bodily fluids including blood, vomit and semen.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
16 May 2026
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The design ethos translates to a warren of nook-and-cranny sitting rooms decorated in sage and slate, ox-blood leather, curiosities and ancestral portraits.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 May 2026
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Tight budgets, growing attacks Until recently, paying family members to care for disabled and elderly relatives had broad bipartisan support as a practical solution to a growing home-care crisis.—
Mike Hixenbaugh,
NBC news,
15 May 2026
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Stumo’s family has been among the most outspoken relatives seeking accountability from Boeing and changes to federal aviation oversight.—
Rio Yamat,
Fortune,
15 May 2026
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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
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The Oscar-winning actress and former Vogue editor-in-chief are related, according to an analysis of family trees and public records done by DNA testing company Ancestry.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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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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The families least likely to be able to navigate a DCF appeal are the same families most likely to be caught in this bill’s net.—
James R Mason,
Hartford Courant,
12 May 2026
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From there, the couples and their families move in together, navigating real-life compatibility, big personalities and even bigger expectations.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
11 May 2026
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Just a few days remain for early voting in the Georgia primary races, and candidates hoping to take the highest seat in the state are pulling out all the stops to reach voters.—
Irene Wright,
USA Today,
13 May 2026
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Democrats over the last year have dominated races for governor and special elections for state legislative and congressional seats.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 May 2026
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“Heredities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heredities. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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