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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

Yet given what has already happened in this tournament and given the pedigree of the teams already headed home, Pochettino is taking nothing for granted.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

Once seen as a U.S. wunderkind for his pedigree and his obvious talent, his career between the two World Cups had seemingly stalled.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

Paraguay are the lowest-ranked team in Group D, which also contains Australia and Turkey, but have as much World Cup pedigree as any of their rivals.

From Barron's Jun. 11, 2026

We have a few more scraps of information about his intellectual pedigree.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

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

Success will depend on several players with promising pedigrees but limited college production becoming playmakers.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2025

This allowed the reconstruction of several extensive pedigrees, the largest of which is nine generations deep and spans about 250 years.

From Science Daily Apr. 24, 2024

The woman was Anita Perkins and the man was Leonard Williams, and they both had fancy pedigrees and degrees and obviously tons of connections everywhere.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon




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