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pedigree

[ped-i-gree] / ˈpɛd ɪˌgri /
ADJECTIVE
purebred
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
base-born lowly




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Their pedigree, along with a story concept Cregger and Duffield devised over a weekend, quickly made Siren Head the subject of a multistudio bidding war.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Glasner arrives at Forest with a winning pedigree, but is he putting his reputation on the line?

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

Paraguay are the lowest-ranked team in Group D, which also contains Australia and Turkey, but have as much World Cup pedigree as any of their rivals.

From Barron's Jun. 11, 2026

Spain has returned to its championship pedigree and is among the tournament favorites, while a rebuilding Uruguay, not so much.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 8, 2026

This was endured silently not only because of its family pedigree but also because Ernest so heartily endorsed the science underlying John’s experiments.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Convergent evolution shows us that lineages respond more to pressures than pedigrees.

From Slate Jan. 25, 2026

Some old and some new, but players with reputations and pedigrees to match, who have helped haul Scotland from the shadows of irrelevance into the spotlight.

From BBC Nov. 18, 2025

Meanwhile, the Brewers are largely a collection of castoffs and unknowns who have somehow coalesced into something greater than their collective pedigrees.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 12, 2025

Success will depend on several players with promising pedigrees but limited college production becoming playmakers.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2025

To marshal further evidence, Galton began to reconstruct pedigrees of eminent men.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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