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roots
noun as in ancestry
Example Sentences
Those values stem from her roots as a Black Panther activist and her educational training at Mills College and UC Berkeley.
As we see pole pop up more in mainstream culture, we have to recognize its roots.
Campbell will eventually raise his own family in the north-west, but is born in south London in 1970, the second youngest of seven children in a family with Jamaican roots.
The roots of his presidential campaign date to 1987, when amid a spiraling economic crisis, the Peruvian government proposed nationalizing banks.
As an heir to the Levi Strauss family fortune, Lurie comes from one of the city’s most prominent families, with roots dating to the Gold Rush.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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