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parentage
noun as in ancestry
Example Sentences
As an expert breeder, Wade Bennett can tell you the precise parentage of every one of the 140 head of Charolais cattle he keeps on a small holding on the edge of Nebraska’s rolling Sandhills.
Still, though, It would be remiss to neglect to acknowledge that one of the film’s leads, Ortega, is a Hispanic actor, hailing from Mexican and Puerto Rican parentage.
As an example, he flagged Trump's recent appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists, where Trump pretended to be confused over Harris's parentage.
Senators have also accused her of being an operative or spy for China, citing her "opaque" answers to questions about her Chinese parentage.
But, as with the whining about Harris' parentage, this is mostly about drawing the public's attention to what old-timey racists called "race-mixing."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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