A framed family tree hung on the wall.
his family tree includes writers, musical composers, and other notables in the arts
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On the other, equally abrasive side of my family tree are my Indian grandparents, who split their time between the Upper East Side and Delhi where their friends the Nairs lived.—Romen Borsellino, New York Daily News, 24 June 2025 Lourdes del Pino, the club’s first vice president, picked up where Peraza left off and found Diego de Arana Isla’s Spanish ancestors in the 1500s, 15 generations back in the pope’s family tree.—Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 18 June 2025 The protocol for selection has varied, sometimes rotating across multiple brothers of the same generation or jumping across family trees to cousins, but always theoretically connecting back to the same common ancestor: Jimmu.—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 8 June 2025 To illustrate the benefit of open-endedness, the researchers created a family tree of the SWE-bench agents.—IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for family tree
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