as in ancestry
the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended
the new teacher was of English parentage
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Recent Examples of parentage
His secret parentage, from the captain's affair with his old flame Dixie, is revealed in their first-ever meeting.
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Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
One of the tabloid rumors that hurt Diana the most centered on the parentage of her youngest son, Prince Harry, according to Dalton.
—Sean Mandell, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Those deeds, however, are based on kinship ties, posing a problem for 38-year-old Star (Sarah Karei), an unmarried woman whose parentage is unknown.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
The group wants to mandate the inclusion of donor and surrogate names on birth certificates, which currently reflect legal, not genetic, parentage.
—Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
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Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
One of the tabloid rumors that hurt Diana the most centered on the parentage of her youngest son, Prince Harry, according to Dalton.
—Sean Mandell, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Those deeds, however, are based on kinship ties, posing a problem for 38-year-old Star (Sarah Karei), an unmarried woman whose parentage is unknown.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
The group wants to mandate the inclusion of donor and surrogate names on birth certificates, which currently reflect legal, not genetic, parentage.
—Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parentage
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Clan Buchanan, which is estimated to have 5 million members worldwide claiming common ancestry, has been without a chief for more than 300 years after the last one died out without a male heir.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 Jan. 2026
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And her mother, who is still a working actor, is from a Jewish background with Polish ancestry.—
Louis Staples,
Glamour,
12 Jan. 2026
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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,
New Atlas,
13 Jan. 2026
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Images of Marie Antoinette, alongside photographs of Russian Jewish women in the early 20th century, place contemporary practice with the long lineage of the spiritual practice.—
Michelle F. Solomon,
Miami Herald,
13 Jan. 2026
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The Pentagon has since been testing the portable, backpack-sized device, which emits pulsed, radio-frequency energy and contains components of Russian origin.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
15 Jan. 2026
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Spain, Portugal, Italy, Malta, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Israel, Palestine and Lebanon all have sites with Phoenician origins.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Jan. 2026
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That type of pedigree is why the Giants pulled out all the stops to land Harbaugh.—
Dan Duggan,
New York Times,
15 Jan. 2026
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The job opening boasts unprecedented stability, championship pedigree, and stable ownership, among other things.—
Michael Guise,
CBS News,
14 Jan. 2026
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In the western Sierra Madres of Mexico, a big cat named Libélula is the matriarch of the largest breeding jaguar population in North America.—
Sarah Henry,
AZCentral.com,
14 Jan. 2026
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The bucolic lands, home to cutting, reining and full-care breeding and foaling among many operations, sit 18 miles northwest of Weatherford.—
Nick Wooten,
Dallas Morning News,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Parentage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parentage. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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