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as in ancestries
the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended
his Italian lineage was very important to him
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as in families
a group of persons who come from the same ancestor
it is now generally accepted that the lineage of Thomas Jefferson includes black as well as white members
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Recent Examples of lineages
Ninety million years after our lineages split, humans are beginning to listen to whales in a new way.
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Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
Peter Godfrey-Smith, professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Sydney, explores the evolutionary roots of consciousness by tracing how felt experience may have emerged across different animal lineages.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
Natural selection repeatedly favored comparable structural outcomes when different lineages encountered the same ecological problem.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
Most of these acquisitions occurred during a relatively narrow window in the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous, some 140 million years ago, just before many major lineages began to diverge quickly (in evolutionary terms, anyway).
—New Atlas, 13 Jan. 2026
The lineages appear to have co-existed in the region for a time.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Dec. 2025
Support staff who can speak confidently about lineages.
—Sara Payan, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2025
Her speech was an ode to the union between women, female lineages, and conquered freedoms.
—Dulce Moncada, Glamour, 14 Nov. 2025
Participants danced and sang songs native to their tribal lineages.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 20 Oct. 2025
Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
Peter Godfrey-Smith, professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Sydney, explores the evolutionary roots of consciousness by tracing how felt experience may have emerged across different animal lineages.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
Natural selection repeatedly favored comparable structural outcomes when different lineages encountered the same ecological problem.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
Most of these acquisitions occurred during a relatively narrow window in the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous, some 140 million years ago, just before many major lineages began to diverge quickly (in evolutionary terms, anyway).
—New Atlas, 13 Jan. 2026
The lineages appear to have co-existed in the region for a time.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Dec. 2025
Support staff who can speak confidently about lineages.
—Sara Payan, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2025
Her speech was an ode to the union between women, female lineages, and conquered freedoms.
—Dulce Moncada, Glamour, 14 Nov. 2025
Participants danced and sang songs native to their tribal lineages.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lineages
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But many Chicanos trace their lineage to indigenous peoples who survived Spanish colonization, often carrying mixed indigenous, Spanish, and other ancestries, a testament to survival and cultural fusion.—
David Alvarado,
Time,
15 Dec. 2025
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This lack of representation is problematic for people of different ancestries because genetic risk factors differ across populations.—
Rachel Nuwer,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025
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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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Even a non-power near-champ like 2008 Utah wouldn’t fit, since the 2000s Mountain West had several programs with better pedigrees than pre-Cignetti Indiana.—
Jason Kirk,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2026
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They’re often marketed with promises of uncorrelated returns and highlight the impressive manager pedigrees.—
Jonathan I. Shenkman,
Forbes.com,
7 Jan. 2026
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The governor spoke after addressing the Arizona Reconsultation Committee, a roundtable of major Arizona water interests including cities, farms and tribes.—
Brandon Loomis,
AZCentral.com,
3 Feb. 2026
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State lawmakers, gaming tribes and the NFL oppose the platforms, which operate as federally regulated derivatives and avoid state gambling oversight and taxation.—
A.J. Perez,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Feb. 2026
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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
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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
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Some of those clans have since dwindled or decamped for more populated areas.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
21 Jan. 2026
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This area has people traveling from New England and the western United States to represent their clans.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 Jan. 2026
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Valentine's Day pagan connections One of the most common explanations is that Valentine's Day has its origins in the ancient Roman fertility festival of Lupercalia.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
29 Jan. 2026
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Because this history is a critical part of our nation's origins.—
Eva Andersen,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
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Three region locations were among the 24 congregations statewide to receive grants through the nonprofit’s Sacred Places Indiana Fund to address capital needs at historic houses of worship.—
Amy Lavalley,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Feb. 2026
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Smaller houses and apartments are the target market for the F200.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
1 Feb. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Lineages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lineages. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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