pedigree
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“The perfect buyer found this home. Drawn to its rich history, heritage, and pedigree, he plans to restore it to its classic roots,” Rosten tells Realtor.com.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
Modest, diplomatic and with a strong political pedigree, 66-year-old Herzog was sworn in as Israel's president in 2021 after being elected by lawmakers in a landslide.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Young quarterbacks of his pedigree are hardly ever available this early in their careers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
L.A. was always where Chandrasekaran wanted to be, he said, a place where your pedigree doesn’t matter as long as you are talented.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 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
Convergent evolution shows us that lineages respond more to pressures than pedigrees.
From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2026
Meanwhile, the Brewers are largely a collection of castoffs and unknowns who have somehow coalesced into something greater than their collective pedigrees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
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
This allowed the reconstruction of several extensive pedigrees, revealing that the communities practised a strict patrilineal system of descent.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
To marshal further evidence, Galton began to reconstruct pedigrees of eminent men.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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