heritage
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Tapping into his family heritage - his father is Scottish and his mother is Sicilian - he decided to make a porridge cannoli.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
"It meant something to us being part of that heritage."
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Environmental and heritage studies would be needed before decisions over the refinery were reached, the spokeswoman said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
"Next year it'll be banning something else relatively small...until we're all just eating, you know, chicken nuggets, and we'll have no culinary heritage whatsoever."
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Music expresses identity, and children often take part in family celebrations that represent an ethnic or religious heritage.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
The stockpile, which has since risen in value, adds Wyoming to a growing cohort of states, including some with mining heritages, looking to add precious metal to their investment portfolios.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
It was one of the artefacts that launched an online campaign to highlight women's roles in pre-colonial communities - and revive cultural heritages almost erased by colonialism.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025
“Only in America,” Harris said, was it possible for two people of such different backgrounds and heritages to join together to make it “all the way” to the White House.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2024
In Cape Town, improvisers picked up on the carnival music of the townships’ Coloured population, a mix of Malaysian, Indian, Dutch, Khoisan and Black African heritages.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
Both the ego and the libido are fundamentally heritages, abbreviated repetitions of an evolution which mankind has, in the course of long periods of time, traversed from primeval ages.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
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It's All in the Family
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"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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