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
But the Cup rookie does not have your typical stock car pedigree.
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Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
But the Norwegian striker, who was the subject of a £55m offer from Newcastle United last summer, does have some pedigree in the Premier League.
—Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
But even before that, the quarterback's athletic ability and family pedigree were well known around the Charlotte area.
—Aaron Parseghian, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
Beshear doesn’t shy from his Democratic pedigree, or stray from much of the party’s orthodoxy.
—Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2026
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Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
But the Norwegian striker, who was the subject of a £55m offer from Newcastle United last summer, does have some pedigree in the Premier League.
—Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
But even before that, the quarterback's athletic ability and family pedigree were well known around the Charlotte area.
—Aaron Parseghian, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
Beshear doesn’t shy from his Democratic pedigree, or stray from much of the party’s orthodoxy.
—Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pedigree
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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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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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According to the sheriff’s office, the blood evidence found at the scene was submitted for genetic genealogy and linked to Steven Richard Hardy, a then-35-year-old Vietnam veteran from Texas.—
Christine Pelisek,
PEOPLE,
30 Jan. 2026
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The Calico paper, for example, relied on data from the genealogy firm Ancestry from family trees involving hundreds of millions of people going back to the 1800s.—
Andrew Joseph,
STAT,
29 Jan. 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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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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“Pedigree.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pedigree. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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