PEDIGREES Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

pedigrees

noun

plural of pedigree

as in lineages

the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended a woman of good pedigree

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Recent Examples of pedigrees Global flavors with local pedigrees provide the secret sauce for Seattle’s culinary scene. — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 29 Aug. 2026 The cast has become a kind of living monument to New York theater, with Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Donna Murphy, Kelli O’Hara, Audra McDonald, and many others bringing Broadway pedigrees to the series. — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 25 Aug. 2026 That’s why the mission was to create waves on the defensive line, to add game-changers built for big moments, such as Dexter Lawrence, and to focus on players with winning, championship pedigrees. — Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026 Lower-budget genre films—Backrooms, Obsession and Iron Lung, many driven by creators with YouTube and small-screen pedigrees—have broken through with younger viewers. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 July 2026 Project Hail Mary’s position will also be tested against new releases from filmmakers with stronger Oscar pedigrees. — Sophia Morano, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026 Powerful family ties will also be in the spotlight in Maine and South Carolina, where candidates with political pedigrees are running for office. — ABC News, 9 June 2026 The candidates have performed in a way that embodies their entertainment pedigrees. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 6 June 2026 And despite their noticeably different contract situations and pedigrees, the pair of new arrivals have worked together within the same position room over the past few weeks. — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 2 June 2026

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Noun

In the healing traditions of northern Peru, curanderos, or traditional healers, usually train through years of apprenticeship, often within family lineages.

— Pardis Mahdavi, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2026
One of the lineages appears to have interbred directly with Homo sapiens in Africa more than 50,000 years ago, while the other was an even older group that passed some of its DNA to humans indirectly through Denisovans.

— Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of lineages

Noun

But Shanes questioned whether grouping Jews under a single ethnic category would produce sufficiently specific data for those purposes, or instead obscure differences among Jewish populations with distinct ancestries.

— Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2026
This technique overcomes limitations of older methods like genotyping arrays, which were often biased towards European ancestries and less accurate.

— William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of ancestries

Noun

Sometimes, though, these genealogies of behavior can seem beside the point, serving only to dull one’s analysis of the situation.

— Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2026
The scientists’ method reconstructs genealogies, or maps showing where different pieces of DNA came from and how they were passed down, revealing branches of our evolutionary past.

— Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of genealogies

Noun

This double theft was central to the origins, growth, and eventual success of the English colonies and the United States—not just initially but throughout all of American history.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
Although the war in Europe and the Pacific dominates debates about Allied misconduct, the colonial character of World War II may tell us more about the origins of our present moment.

— Faisal Devji, Time, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of origins

Noun

After retrieving wild adults from several distinct bloodlines, scientists will attempt to incubate their eggs at the Wolf Lake State Fish Hatchery and then transfer the survivors to hatcheries across the state.

— CBS News, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026
Many of today’s European royal families share connected bloodlines thanks to the strategic matchmaking of 19th-century monarchs like Queen Victoria and King Christian IX of Denmark.

— Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2026

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