as in lineage
the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended
a woman of good pedigree
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Recent Examples of pedigree
The couple joins Team USA with a strong skating pedigree—Canadian Carreira’s mother is a skating coach, and Ponomarenko’s parents are Olympic ice dance champions.
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Alice Park, Time, 12 Jan. 2026
But the involvement of partial owner Tom Brady is ramping up, adding a voice with championship pedigree to the situation.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2026
The 49ers built a wide receiver depth chart on potential and pedigree.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2026
Rob Reiner came from a show business pedigree.
—Steve Futterman, NPR, 7 Jan. 2026
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Alice Park, Time, 12 Jan. 2026
But the involvement of partial owner Tom Brady is ramping up, adding a voice with championship pedigree to the situation.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2026
The 49ers built a wide receiver depth chart on potential and pedigree.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2026
Rob Reiner came from a show business pedigree.
—Steve Futterman, NPR, 7 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for pedigree
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pedigree
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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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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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Brashers had already been identified as a likely suspect in that case in 2018 through investigative genetic genealogy.—
Dante Motley,
Austin American Statesman,
7 Jan. 2026
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For decades, the case remained cold until new DNA methods and forensic genealogy helped point authorities to a suspect and eventually connect Schmidt to the crime.—
Liam Quinn,
PEOPLE,
2 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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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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“Pedigree.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pedigree. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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