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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heredities
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 trio fled; Cordell staggered to his feet, blood gushing from his face.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
7 Feb. 2026
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The list price of Eliquis, a blood thinner, plunged 43%, while Jardiance, used to treat Type 2 diabetes, fell 44%.—
Joe Walsh,
CBS News,
6 Feb. 2026
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The thinking went that the devices, which have grown increasingly popular in recent years, would give residents a feasible alternative to driving to work, the grocery store, or to visit relatives.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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It's caused tension in the community and with relatives.—
Jennifer Mayerle,
CBS News,
6 Feb. 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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There’s an urge to reconnect with our heritage, and people are undertaking ancestry pilgrimages, combining boots-on-the-ground investigation into family trees and searching for documents in town halls, with discovering the places our ancestors used to call home.—
Alex Ledsom,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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The Calico paper, for example, relied on data from the genealogy firm Ancestry from family trees involving hundreds of millions of people going back to the 1800s.—
Andrew Joseph,
STAT,
29 Jan. 2026
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Hundreds of volunteers have packed and delivered grocery boxes to families too afraid to leave their homes.—
Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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HexClad has already contributed directly to recovery efforts, donating cookware to families who lost their homes and helping provide tens of thousands of meals through community partnerships.—
Michelle Edgar,
Daily News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Congress can add rules for federal races.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
5 Feb. 2026
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The strategist added that hurricane politics alone are unlikely to decide the outcome in a state where Senate races tend to follow partisan fundamentals.—
Samantha-Jo Roth,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Heredities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heredities. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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