lineage
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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
The Bruins imported the latest in a lineage of Bay Area dynamic duos.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026
"The new finds of Homo teeth from 2.6 -- 2.8 million year old sediments -- reported in this paper -- confirms the antiquity of our lineage," said Brian Villmoare, lead author and ASU alumnus.
From Science Daily • May 16, 2026
Vijay steps into that lineage, but at a different political moment.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
I thought of my father and his parents, my mother and her parents, each family’s respective lineage and history of participation in social movements—Garvey on one side and Booker T. Washington on the other.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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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