ancestral
Example Sentences
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Leo is seeking to make these communities feel less isolated and to encourage them to remain in their ancestral lands.
Although many living species share flexible skulls and other advanced traits, only the tuatara still retains a complete lower temporal bar, giving it a more ancestral appearance.
From Science Daily
The original formulations of both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines were designed against only the ancestral version of the coronavirus, rather than the heavily mutated versions in circulation today.
From Los Angeles Times
In countries such as Greece, Easter is also an occasion to flee the big cities for ancestral villages: It was reported that over 575,000 cars, almost all packed with families, left the Athens area.
From Seattle Times
Mr. Biden, who traveled to Belfast to mark the anniversary, left Mr. Kennedy behind in Belfast when he went to the south to explore his ancestral roots.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
