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
Levine added that Israel has pedigree in teen programming through the likes of Disney Channel series North Star, which was reversioned as global series The Lodge, which is now on Disney+ starring Luke Benton (Bridgerton), Thomas Doherty (Gossip Girl) and Sophie Simnett (Twist).
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2025
The Rockets have athleticism, but the Warriors have championship pedigree.
Warriors in 6.
—Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
Political legacy As old-school Chicago political pedigree goes, Jones could hardly have higher status.
—Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
The film comes with strong festival pedigree, having received the SGIFF Short Film Fund and the Singapore Momo Distribution Grant.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Apr. 2025
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2025
The Rockets have athleticism, but the Warriors have championship pedigree.
Warriors in 6.
—Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
Political legacy As old-school Chicago political pedigree goes, Jones could hardly have higher status.
—Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
The film comes with strong festival pedigree, having received the SGIFF Short Film Fund and the Singapore Momo Distribution Grant.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pedigree
Noun
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Scientists urged conservation efforts to save the unique lineage.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
25 Apr. 2025
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After the Challenger accident in 1986, NASA launched most of its satellites on expendable rockets, like the Atlas, Delta, and Titan launch vehicles that traced their lineages to the 1950s.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
24 Apr. 2025
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And realizing that these women, this culture, this practice is actually a part of my ancestry, too.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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The effort will require tracing the ancestry of remipedes and other crustaceans, as well as searching for insects in the fossil record—both from new fossil sites and perhaps miscategorized fossils already in collections.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Apr. 2025
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Capri, on the other hand, has a much shorter genealogy.—
Vanessa Friedman,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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How Are Cory Booker and RuPaul Related? Booker and RuPaul first learned they were related during an episode of the PBS genealogy series Finding Your Roots in October 2020.—
Lee Habeeb,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Apr. 2025
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Diego was immediately flown back to the Galápagos to join a last-ditch breeding program in 1977.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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Since the org partnered with Three Camel Lodge in 2020 to expand the breeding program, visitors to the camp can meet the stoic (but still quite cute and fluffy) guardian dogs.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
25 Apr. 2025
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There’s at least one major shoe that could drop — why devote an entire episode to the Gemstone origin story if that gold Bible isn’t going to pay off somehow? — but The Righteous Gemstones loves these grotesque, dysfunctional louts.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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Typically, the first film in a Marvel franchise establishes the protagonist’s origins, and the sequels present that character with challenges from increasingly formidable opponents.—
Jelani Cobb,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Pedigree.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pedigree. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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