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ancestry
noun as in family predecessors; family history
Example Sentences
DNA analysis has also revealed the men had a mix of ancestry and that none appeared to be from the local area.
Border Patrol agents violated the Constitution when they stopped a car on a freeway near San Clemente because its occupants appeared to be “of Mexican ancestry.”
"We want to understand our ancestry and the migration routes of our ancestors," says professor G Kumaresan, who heads the genetics department at the university.
"We checked their phones and found suspicious contacts from Bangladesh. Some of them also failed to answer questions about their ancestry during interrogation," he said.
“I think Willy’s biggest issue around it is not honoring or working with the communities it comes from, even if he has Mexican ancestry.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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