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
The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to narrow lower-court rulings that blocked Trump’s plan to end automatic birthright citizenship, which guarantees that those born in the U.S., regardless of parentage, are automatically citizens under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
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Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 14 Mar. 2025
Eddie's real parentage is revealed, Maeve is outed, Kevin catches up with Rusby, Bella brokers her deal, and Alice attends an awkward Harrigan dinner.
—Matt Cabral, EW.com, 26 May 2025
Many countries offer citizenship through parentage.
—Sarah Matusek, Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2025
So perhaps Chelsea will be spared and have plenty of time to work with Rick through his new revelation about his parentage.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 31 Mar. 2025
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Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 14 Mar. 2025
Eddie's real parentage is revealed, Maeve is outed, Kevin catches up with Rusby, Bella brokers her deal, and Alice attends an awkward Harrigan dinner.
—Matt Cabral, EW.com, 26 May 2025
Many countries offer citizenship through parentage.
—Sarah Matusek, Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2025
So perhaps Chelsea will be spared and have plenty of time to work with Rick through his new revelation about his parentage.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 31 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parentage
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The results give key findings from over 265 health tests, identify over 365 dog breeds, and provide insights into genetics and ancestry.—
Molly Higgins,
Wired News,
8 July 2025
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But 20% of the man’s ancestry best matches older genomes from Mesopotamia, suggesting that the movement of people into Egypt at some point may have been fairly substantial, Girdland-Flink.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
2 July 2025
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Edward Monreal, who was partially raised by his aunt Doll, shared stories of his lineage, but never spoke of the fire that claimed his own family.—
William Lee,
Chicago Tribune,
5 July 2025
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Bill Thomas, the inheritor of a lineage that began in 1911, is retiring.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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In the eight years since Miller rose to fame and became an outsized antagonist on the American left, his Santa Monica villain origin story has been exhaustively documented, picked over and reanalyzed.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 July 2025
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As is the case for many classic cocktails, the origin of the mojito is uncertain and disputed.—
Claudia Alarcón,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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The interest from those schools, which had more golf pedigree?—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
27 June 2025
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Beck, who arrived after two years as Georgia’s starting quarterback, has a winning pedigree.—
Adam Lichtenstein,
Sun Sentinel,
25 June 2025
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Over the years, there have been banding efforts by researchers to track the travel patterns across breeding populations found in the Caribbean and Yucatan Peninsula.—
Valentina Sandoval,
Miami Herald,
9 July 2025
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The captive breeding programs have already started showing encouraging results, with a rare litter of Arabian leopard triplets being born at the RCU’s Arabian Leopard Conservation Breeding Centre in Taif back in December 2024.—
Indrabati Lahiri,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
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“Parentage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parentage. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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