parentage
Example Sentences
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In a podcast with The Athletic FC, Rosenior highlighted how his star striker, Emmanuel Emegha, was labelled "difficult" and "emotional", but said he understood the Netherlands international with Nigerian parentage.
From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026
Courts in different jurisdictions don’t necessarily have visibility into parentage applications filed elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025
And although she didn’t know it, Estelle was misled about her parentage — her elder sister was actually her mother; the mother who raised them both was her grandmother.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 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
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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