pedigree
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He is still an underdog against Garcia - a fighter with greater amateur pedigree and a more accomplished professional resume - but Benn's size and physical pressure could become one of his biggest advantages.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Despite its celebrity pedigree and hefty price tag, the treatment itself is one of the more affordable wellness options among the U.S.’ trillion-dollar wellness industry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Hogh is the pedigree striker that Celtic have lacked since Kyogo Furuhashi was around.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 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
“Oh, so I have to have a pedigree going back to the time of George Washington.”
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
More so than many cast members, who wear their pedigrees on their sleeve, she generates a feeling of “Well, well, what do we have here?” with no easy, immediate answer.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
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
Currently, pedigrees are how horse owners and breeders find out which stallions are in a horse's ancestry, which gives information on the traits a horse may have inherited.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2024
To marshal further evidence, Galton began to reconstruct pedigrees of eminent men.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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