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
Following its role in last year’s historic run for awards season sensation Emilia Pérez, the American French Film Festival returns with a 2025 lineup boasting a pair of projects with Hollywood pedigrees, alongside an array of potential breakouts.
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Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 31 Oct. 2025
The indictment also accused the men of purchasing the counterfeit prescription drugs without proper paperwork, known as T3s/pedigrees, and reselling them to pharmacy customers.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2025
Those players, with their own experiences and their own pedigrees, joined the team last year and watched a team underachieve.
—C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
When employers look past pedigrees and see workers’ singular abilities, histories, and motivations, skills gaps disappear.
—Ryan Stowers, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 31 Oct. 2025
The indictment also accused the men of purchasing the counterfeit prescription drugs without proper paperwork, known as T3s/pedigrees, and reselling them to pharmacy customers.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2025
Those players, with their own experiences and their own pedigrees, joined the team last year and watched a team underachieve.
—C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
When employers look past pedigrees and see workers’ singular abilities, histories, and motivations, skills gaps disappear.
—Ryan Stowers, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pedigrees
Noun
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The paleontologist Simon Conway Morris points out that there are common and widespread patterns of convergent evolution in life’s history, where similar adaptations, like eyes, wings, and streamlined bodies, evolved independently in unrelated lineages.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
29 Oct. 2025
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Participants danced and sang songs native to their tribal lineages.—
Erika I. Ritchie,
Oc Register,
20 Oct. 2025
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This lack of representation is problematic for people of different ancestries because genetic risk factors differ across populations.—
Rachel Nuwer,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025
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The box covers the most popular classes and ancestries such as humans, elves, dwarves and halflings.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The seal texts often introduced the owners with their names, genealogies, gender, professions and hometowns.—
Serdar Yalçin,
The Conversation,
3 Nov. 2025
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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
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With similarly humble origins, Frank Howard’s famous rock, which was brought back to him by a fan from California’s Death Valley, began as a doorstop.—
Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin,
Southern Living,
8 Nov. 2025
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Since then, research into the disease and its origins has expanded significantly, uncovering genetic, biochemical and environmental factors that may contribute to its onset and progression.—
The San Diego Union Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Nov. 2025
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In a generation or two, there’ll be no continuation of their bloodlines.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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Despite the obvious pageant bloodlines in the family, Orlando never wanted to force Schiermeyer to compete.—
Tabitha Parent,
PEOPLE,
17 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Pedigrees.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pedigrees. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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