parentages

plural of parentage

Example Sentences

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Noun
  • Slavers didn’t keep records of family lineages and the enslaved couldn’t do so.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Mingling and interbreeding Modern humans and Neanderthals share an ancestor that originated in Africa, but the two lineages diverged at least 500,000 years ago.
    Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The box covers the most popular classes and ancestries such as humans, elves, dwarves and halflings.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Behind Chalet Alpina are two development teams with impressive pedigrees.
    Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The origins of Godzilla’s name may remain a mystery, but there are no secrets related to its film escapades.
    Michael Taube, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Since pivoting from black and pinto beans to roasted and ground ones, Niccol has been trying to reverse Starbucks’s falling sales by returning to its coffeehouse origins.
    Molly Liebergall, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For a year and a half, the detectives first approached a large volume of low-match DNA results which could be traced back to existing American family trees.
    Claire Lempert, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The organization works with law enforcement agencies nationwide, using volunteer investigative genetic genealogists to build extensive family trees and trace DNA matches.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Despite the potential dangers, some young users and their families say trying the controversial therapy is preferable to being stuck in the status quo.
    Rachel Hale, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Jenkins, a former Brevard County school board member and speech pathologist, released a launch video casting herself as a fighter for working families, drawing on her own experience working multiple jobs to make ends meet.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This three-day program moves on to teaching more advanced techniques, like left-foot braking, handling ascents and descents, and weight transfer.
    Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Human sequences depicted various runs and also ascents, descents, lifts, throws, wrestling, dances, a child crawling, and a woman pouring a bucket of water over another woman.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2019
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“Parentages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parentages. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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