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ancestral

[an-ses-truhl] / ænˈsɛs trəl /


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It was shouted by Joe Biden as he visited his ancestral home in Ballina.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

“Then I brought in the tall ship bookends and African masks, and the works moved in a more ancestral and political direction.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

The island's isolation -- 2,000 kilometres east of the capital Jakarta -- has helped preserve these ancestral social structures.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

That possibility challenges the simpler version of marsupial evolution, in which one ancestral group gave rise to the full diversity of Australian marsupials.

From Science Daily Jul. 19, 2026

The ancestral language may derive from what is known as the Hopewell culture.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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