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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Shaboozey, clad in jeans, a black waistcoat and hat, continued to speak candidly about his ancestry.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
2 Feb. 2026
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Some of the biggest travel trends expected for 2026 are around ancestry and grocery store tourism.—
Alex Ledsom,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Tataviam Land Conservancy board member and Cultural Bearer Kevin Nuñez led a historical discussion, explaining that his people of the village Japchibit are the original Indigenous people of the San Gabriel Mountains, and his family has a traceable lineage with Japchibit traceable through 1765.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Yet his lineage, alliances, and platform suggest not a rejection of far-right governance but its strategic adaptation—preserving democratic form while recalibrating its substance.—
Alejandro Reyes,
Washington Post,
3 Feb. 2026
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The novel, Hoffman explained, had its origins in academia too.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
4 Feb. 2026
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While their origins may lie in defense and warfare, their legacy is written in convenience, connectivity, and progress.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Feb. 2026
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Here was a paper with a strong pedigree that had fallen on somewhat hard times, and a suitor with funds who seemed eager to return it to steady glory.—
Hanna Rosin,
The Atlantic,
5 Feb. 2026
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But White has long preached the process over championship pedigree to his potential players, and that doesn’t change now that Texas has a title.—
Thomas Jones,
Austin American Statesman,
5 Feb. 2026
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Savanna was born in 2012 at Mast Farm, the zoo's offsite cheetah breeding facility.—
Bebe Hodges,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
3 Feb. 2026
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The condor almost disappeared in the 1980s, when biologists trapped the last 22 of them in Southern California and began a captive breeding program.—
Shaun McKinnon,
AZCentral.com,
2 Feb. 2026
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“Parentage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parentage. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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