lineage
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Ronaldinho, who played alongside Messi at the start of that golden era at Barcelona and won a Champions League with him, has drawn the lineage directly.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
The episode belongs to a much longer lineage of banned books about race and the color line in the South and other parts of the country.
From Salon • May 31, 2026
Grogu shows a growing mastery of the Force, even if the toddler’s lineage to the original Jedi sage Yoda remains mysterious and his language mostly gibberish.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
He probably thinks this one is in the raunchy lineage of Dance Mania records, but it’s not nearly as committed to the bit.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
If they trace their lineage back far enough, at a certain point it splits into white and native and a tangled web of “other.”
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
Vocabulary lists containing lineage
It's All in the Family
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "J," "K," and "L"
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Born a Crime
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