parentage

Example Sentences

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Courts in different jurisdictions don’t necessarily have visibility into parentage applications filed elsewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

However the rules meant that despite their parentage they had to serve a four-year qualification period.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025

Of course, there are parallels between Whitaker and Alani with their parentage and privilege — Whitaker doesn’t deny that.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025

Factual parentage was all that mattered under the law.

From Slate • Sep. 5, 2025

Her bracelet tinkled, calling communicants to the altar, but the only one in the temple had been excommunicated from the Faith because of his parentage and continued mopping.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole