ancestral
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For the first time in more than 80 years, the fish swam in their ancestral river, where they had once been abundant.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026
Their loved one's ashes are placed inside and the space turned into an ancestral shrine.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
The granddaughter of a traumatized mouse may still carry a certain characteristic, but her fundamental mousiness isn’t a result of such highly specific ancestral experiences, which operate in the narrowest crevices of evolution.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
By comparing how these gene clusters are arranged across hundreds of plant genomes and tracing their patterns from ancestral species to modern plants, they were able to detect conserved elements that earlier methods had missed.
From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026
The eyes of the ancestral portraits in Lord Fredrick’s study seemed to stare at her accusingly.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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