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ancestral

[an-ses-truhl] / ænˈsɛs trəl /


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The agency isn’t seeking consultation as legally defined by CEQA, but “more comprehensive involvement of tribes in planning, construction and stewardship of their ancestral lands.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

In late September, a Kenyan court ordered a pause to construction after more than 100 Lamu residents sued alleging that the refinery threatened ancestral land where they had farmed and buried their families for generations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 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

The pictograms in the Codex Boturini narrate the story of the migration of the Aztecs, also known as Mexica, from their ancestral homeland to the shores of Lake Texcoco, where they built Tenochtitlán.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

She sat on a footstool with folded hands before the oversized portrait of her late husband, Lord Edward Ashton, which hung in a row with all the other ancestral portraits that lined the wall.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood


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