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

“There are a lot of politics around the Persian origin,” said Al Hussein, who is Emirati of ancestral Persian origin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Their loved one's ashes are placed inside and the space turned into an ancestral shrine.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 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

More than eight million villagers were forcibly removed from their ancestral homes in a Joint US and South Vietnam program.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge