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ancestor

noun as in predecessor in family

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This is the type of monarchy embodied by Prince Carlo’s Bourbon ancestor, that very same Louis XIV who ruled by divine right and sought absolute power.

From Slate

“I just Googled an ancestor’s name and their Find a Grave Page popped up,” O’Donnell told me.

From Slate

This includes crabs, which evolved from the common ancestor of all crabs, and it includes other kinds of crustaceans with completely different ancestors, occupying a different branch of the evolutionary tree — yet a total plagiarism of the idea of crab.

From Salon

It started with the recent ancestor of XEC, KP.3.3, which exhibits a mutation that undoes destroying the essential transcription region of N* so the N* protein can’t be produced.

From Salon

Cyrus and Parton’s mutual ancestor, John Brickey, lived in Tennessee’s Blunt County not far from where Dollywood is today, Access Hollywood revealed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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