pedigree

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Captain of Italy's 2006 World Cup-winning team, the former defender does not have a scintillating managerial pedigree.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

But she wound up being just one of many with such a pedigree in his Cabinet, and she’s kept a low profile ever since.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2026

Khamenei’s son and successor, the Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, has neither his father’s experience nor Khomeini’s pedigree.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

One, “R.J. Decker,” is a classic example of the genre, with a Carl Hiaasen pedigree.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

Ricky bought it from the town dump with a jar of quarters—or so he claimed—a pedigree whose odor even the forest of air-freshener trees he’d hung from the mirror couldn’t mask.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs