ancestral
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"I asked my mother about it, and she told me the baby had died from 'jai', an ancestral illness."
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The island's isolation -- 2,000 kilometres east of the capital Jakarta -- has helped preserve these ancestral social structures.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Every koala alive today appears to descend from a single ancestral population that endured dramatic environmental shifts, including intense glacial periods.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
Gildas, as Mr. Higham relates, likened post-Roman Britain to ancient Israel, exhorting his countrymen to “renew their compact with God and thereby recover His favor and, in consequence, their ancestral homeland.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
An ill-bred falcon, who was subject to the vice of screaming, stood hooded and motionless on a perch like a parrot’s, brooding in some ancestral nightmare.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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