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ancestry
noun as in family predecessors; family history
Example Sentences
She became the first woman of Indian ancestry to serve as prime minister of a country outside the subcontinent when she won the office in 2010.
This suggests that P. robustus may not have been a single uniform species, but a mix of populations with different ancestries.
Bailey, who has Japanese ancestry, says the additions underscore how horror fandom is universal.
On the home front, Romer shows how Ruth barnstormed Central California in 1927, a decade and a half before the U.S. government forced citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps there.
DNA analysis has also revealed the men had a mix of ancestry and that none appeared to be from the local area.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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