ancestral
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For Jeremy Stahl, whose family is French and Moroccan, Thursday’s quarterfinal game between his two ancestral countries was a special blend of pain and pleasure.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026
Gildas, as Mr. Higham relates, likened post-Roman Britain to ancient Israel, exhorting his countrymen to “renew their compact with God and thereby recover His favor and, in consequence, their ancestral homeland.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
With Syria transformed by war, Lebanon unstable, and Armenia an ancestral homeland in which neither she nor her parents had ever lived, the move left her without an obvious place to return to.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Smoove will pop up at some point to rehash Leon and Larry’s dynamic in, shall we say, an ancestral context.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
“Welcome to your ancestral home of Lyttyrboks, Earth cat!”
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
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