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ancestral

[an-ses-truhl] / ænˈsɛs trəl /


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His client fled to his ancestral homeland ahead of a mid-September sentencing date, a move that has become the talk of the state’s political class.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The advanced method is known as ancestral sequence reconstruction, which was pioneered by Joseph Thornton, a former UO scientist whose old laboratory space is now occupied by Barber's group.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Scientists track distinct “runs” of salmon in the Sacramento River, each named for when the fish return from the Pacific and swim upriver to their ancestral streams to spawn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The pictograms in the Codex Boturini narrate the story of the migration of the Aztecs, also known as Mexica, from their ancestral homeland to the shores of Lake Texcoco, where they built Tenochtitlán.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

“But, technically speaking, Suquamish villages were built on both sides of the Sound. So their reservation is across from us, but this whole region counts as our ancestral territory.”

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day


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