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Recent Examples of lineage Except for a brief biographical sketch, sounds float largely free of context or lineage. Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024 The bar traces its lineage back to a different name and location. Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2025 The reference 5370 represents a new generation of an important lineage for Patek Philippe. Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 26 Dec. 2024 The two come to see each other as brothers, despite Taka being a prince and his father insisting that Mufasa is nothing but an outsider who poses a threat to their family’s royal lineage—a suspicion that is partially justified when Mufasa does come to rule the land. Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for lineage 
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Noun
  • The rising French actor, who was named on Wednesday as Berluti’s new brand ambassador for 2025, is the grandson of New Wave icon Jean-Paul Belmondo and has both French and Italian ancestry.
    Joelle Diderich, WWD, 15 Jan. 2025
  • With this new evidence, the research team now has a better understanding of what this society was like: a society with a deep respect for its ancestry and its leaders.
    Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The Placer County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man Thursday in connection to the fentanyl poisoning death of a 20-year-old man who’s family has become outspoken advocates about the dangers of the deadly drug.
    Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Entire families were killed while sheltering in Rafah.
    Anas Baba, NPR, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Alex Bregman The veteran third baseman boasts championship pedigree and plenty of production over nine seasons with the Houston Astros, yet Bregman’s free-agent market has been slower to develop than expected.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Schottenheimer would bring experience and coaching pedigree to the mix.
    Vincent Frank, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
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  • The tribe is just one of nine that banned the GOP governor last year over her criticism.
    Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The administration entered 400 co-stewardship agreements for federal lands and wildlife with tribes, Alaska Native corporations and other communities.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Understanding the history and origin of these laws is critical to that effort.
    Peter L. Markowitz, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The movement bears the prestigious Geneva Seal, a certification that guarantees not only the movement's Geneva origin but also its superior chronometry and finishing.
    Bhanu Chopra, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
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  • Not just members of his extended clan — the Kushners, the Trumps — but others whom he’s known for decades, including a commercial real-estate exec who met him on the charity circuit and a former real-estate attorney who testified on his behalf during his hush-money trial.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 22 Jan. 2025
  • As Donald Trump takes his oath of office to become the 47th President of the United States and begin his second tenure, politicians, the Trump clan, tech titans et al have arrived at the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C. to bear witness.
    Vogue, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • For the exhibit, the two did an intricate design of a tree of Yemen and Arab genealogy.
    Janice Neuman, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
  • But investigative genetic genealogy can never confirm a person’s identity.
    Sarah Weinman, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Her house, though not destroyed, was at the edge of the burn area, and isn’t livable.
    Kate Sequeira, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
  • His only things were, there’s a house with a presence in it.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025

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“Lineage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lineage. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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