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Recent Examples of ancestral
Scientists have not found an animal infected with the ancestral virus that sparked the pandemic, but searches like that are not an easy task.
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Katherine Dillinger, CNN, 2 Dec. 2024
Museum Indian Market Watch traditional Native American performances and ancestral demonstrations after browsing the 100 artisan booths.
—Jessica Boehm, Axios, 1 Dec. 2024
As tensions swell, various cast members sing a medley of slave work songs, blues tunes, and Negro spirituals, creating a tug of war between the past and present as the characters seek to commune with ancestral spirits.
—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2024
For my people, the most significant music isn’t the newest but the oldest, the most ancestral.
—Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 27 Nov. 2024
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Katherine Dillinger, CNN, 2 Dec. 2024
Museum Indian Market Watch traditional Native American performances and ancestral demonstrations after browsing the 100 artisan booths.
—Jessica Boehm, Axios, 1 Dec. 2024
As tensions swell, various cast members sing a medley of slave work songs, blues tunes, and Negro spirituals, creating a tug of war between the past and present as the characters seek to commune with ancestral spirits.
—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2024
For my people, the most significant music isn’t the newest but the oldest, the most ancestral.
—Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 27 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ancestral
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The festival and its Souk market had a new home this year in Jeddah’s historic Al Balad district.Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Dec. 2024
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The album’s existence is historic, a reminder of how singular these two are in a studio.August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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Founded in 2013 by partners Ben Runkle and butcher Bryan Butler, Salt & Time's East Seventh Street location spearheaded a movement towards old-world methods of meat sourcing, butchering, and aging.Ana Gutierrez, Austin American-Statesman, 11 Dec. 2024
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The Del Coronado’s ultimate claim to Hollywood fame, however, remains its role in Some Like It Hot, in which the hotel’s old-world aesthetic provided Wilder with a cost-efficient time warp to the 1920s.Ingrid Schmidt, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2024
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Last year, an ancient, still-active volcano was found off the Canadian coast, covered in millions of giant eggs laid by Pacific white skates (a hauntingly beautiful cartilaginous fish that looks like a stingray).Scott Travers, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
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The area buzzes with shops, restaurants, and landmarks such as the Mayan Museum of Cancun, with exhibitions showcasing ancient Mayan history and art and the adjacent San Miguelito Archeological Site of Mayan ruins.Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 13 Dec. 2024
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At the time, those came in classic green bottles from old-time perfumers’ shelves.Jennifer Weil, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
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Listen to a Live Radio Show The historic Rex Theater welcomes local, regional, and national old-time musical acts.Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 29 Nov. 2024
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Karey Burke, another figure backing the project, discussed the series' historical importance by noting its groundbreaking contributions to TV comedy.Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
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Then there’s the pharmacy, where once again, the effort to replicate every detail with historical accuracy is evident.Fernanda Pérez Sánchez, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2024
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Orr is a habitual offender whose criminal history goes back 30 years.Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2024
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While a routine is habitual, rituals are experiences that take place with intention and can be transformative.Jann E. Freed, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
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The show skips across the decades, dramatizing the interviews an older Dolours (Maxine Peake) did for a Boston College oral history of the Troubles, which were taped with the promise that they would be released only after participants’ deaths.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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By contrast, the prospect of citizenships and alliances—and perhaps conquests or crusades—structured around the opinions, beliefs, and subjective identities of ordinary people in times of peace would require a new (or very old) conception of empire.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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“Ancestral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ancestral. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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