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

That same year, Judge Pellman denied Xu’s parentage petition in Los Angeles.

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

Tormented by the certainty that he was his wife’s brother, Aureliano ran out to the parish house to search through the moldy and moth-eaten archives for some clue to his parentage.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez