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ancestral

[an-ses-truhl] / ænˈsɛs trəl /


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His client fled to his ancestral homeland ahead of a mid-September sentencing date, a move that has become the talk of the state’s political class.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The advanced method is known as ancestral sequence reconstruction, which was pioneered by Joseph Thornton, a former UO scientist whose old laboratory space is now occupied by Barber's group.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Government departments told AFP they aim to integrate rural areas into the development project, but that Chan's ancestral houses were not culturally significant enough to preserve.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

More than three dozen sets of human remains taken during the British colonial rule of India and Myanmar are set to be returned to their ancestral home by a museum.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Sometime in the distant past, a line of ancestral creatures must have developed this structure and found it worked, just as generations of long-ago crawling things in Mary’s world had developed the central spine.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman


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