ancestral
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Ireland and the United States have long been close allies, partly because of their common ancestral ties.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
In 2020, the museum removed all human remains from public display as part of what the it called a "decolonisation process" - including the ancestral Naga remains.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Now an Indigenous tribe is demanding a say in the fate of their ancestral homeland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Their streamlined, fusiform bodies combined features characteristic of hexapods and insects with more primitive ancestral traits.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
It is now known that a limulus clotting system, perhaps ancestral to ours, is centrally involved in the reaction.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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