parentage
Example Sentences
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Viewers eventually learn Sophie’s servitude is forced after her parentage is revealed — she’s the illegitimate daughter of an earl.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026
Courts in different jurisdictions don’t necessarily have visibility into parentage applications filed elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025
Under the Constitution, all American citizens receive equal protection; the government may not subvert our rights because of some arbitrary factor over which we have no control, like our parentage.
From Slate • Feb. 4, 2025
As an expert breeder, Wade Bennett can tell you the precise parentage of every one of the 140 head of Charolais cattle he keeps on a small holding on the edge of Nebraska’s rolling Sandhills.
From BBC • Sep. 28, 2024
Many people would admire Odin’s horse, but only a brave man would ever mention its parentage in Loki’s presence, and nobody ever dared to allude to it twice.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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