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pedigree

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




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Modest, diplomatic and with a strong political pedigree, 66-year-old Herzog was sworn in as Israel's president in 2021 after being elected by lawmakers in a landslide.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Georgia, a perennial top-10 program and national championship contender, typically recruits passers of Matthew Stafford-level pedigree.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

His Harvard-and-Yale pedigree and debate-me-bro verbosity make him come off more like a snob than a man of the people.

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2026

Winner of the 2017 Women's Euros with her own Netherlands and runner-up at the subsequent World Cup in 2019, she certainly had the pedigree, but could she deliver on her promises?

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

He was a Strange, with all that that entailed—though the significance of his name would be meaningless to her, and anyway, he didn’t think she was inquiring into his pedigree.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

It made him an obvious candidate to join the growing ranks of baseball general managers with Ivy League pedigrees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

More so than many cast members, who wear their pedigrees on their sleeve, she generates a feeling of “Well, well, what do we have here?” with no easy, immediate answer.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2026

Thanks to the high resolution provided by the extensive pedigrees and whole-cemetery data, the researchers were also able to identify a clear temporal transition within one of the sites analysed.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024

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

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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