lineal
Example Sentences
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The United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, was a lineal descendant of the Marshall Plan and an embodiment of soft power.
From Salon • Aug. 16, 2025
Archival documents they found also mention a wife and child—meaning Voorhees could have unidentified lineal descendants living today who could claim his remains.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 23, 2024
Some tribes ask potential members to show lineal descent, meaning an ancestor who was a registered member.
From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2022
The 1990 federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act requires federally funded institutions, such as universities, to return Native American remains and cultural items to lineal descendants, tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 11, 2022
The Voyager spacecraft are the lineal descendants of those sailing-ship voyages of exploration, and of the scientific and speculative tradition of Christiaan Huygens.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
