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pedigree

[ped-i-gree] / ˈpɛd ɪˌgri /
ADJECTIVE
purebred
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
base-born lowly




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"A three-year plan gives you some certainty about what you're going to get," agreed retired livestock auctioneer Alwyn Jones, showing his pedigree Welsh Black cattle.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Search funds typically only back someone with an M.B.A. or similar pedigree, something Bakari Akil soon learned.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Home hopes were, of course, not helped by Jack Draper and Emma Raducanu - the pair with the most pedigree - pulling out because of injury.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

Still, a dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker with an estimable European operatic pedigree could also appear an incongruous fit for L.A., which came to opera quite late in any kind of consistent or intrinsic way.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

He was a Strange, with all that that entailed—though the significance of his name would be meaningless to her, and anyway, he didn’t think she was inquiring into his pedigree.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Convergent evolution shows us that lineages respond more to pressures than pedigrees.

From Slate Jan. 25, 2026

Some old and some new, but players with reputations and pedigrees to match, who have helped haul Scotland from the shadows of irrelevance into the spotlight.

From BBC Nov. 18, 2025

However, pedigrees are recorded manually, and they may go back only a few generations.

From Science Daily Nov. 19, 2024

Recounting an oversight hearing on Capitol Hill, Gluesenkamp Perez describes looking over the witnesses with their fusty manner and fancy pedigrees and wondering if any had ever turned a wrench.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 27, 2024

To marshal further evidence, Galton began to reconstruct pedigrees of eminent men.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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