parentage
Example Sentences
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She asked Andrés a series of questions about Eliad, entered his answers into an app on her tablet and certified the baby’s birth and parentage, all in less than an hour.
From New York Times
I assume that your own guilt and ambivalence about her possible parentage — and your implicit rejection of her — is keeping you away.
From Washington Post
“Parallel Mothers” is many things at once: a thriller about parentage, a meditation on motherhood.
From Washington Post
And it’s not just them — parentage puzzles can happen anywhere up and down the chains of family relations, buried decades or centuries in the past.
From New York Times
Even on the streets of the capital, Pyongyang, where criticizing the Kim dynasty is verboten, whispers arose about his youth, inexperience and murky parentage.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
