family tree

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Recent Examples of family tree In the case of Edwards, Beaumont detective Tina Lewallen and genetic genealogist Shera LaPoint helped create a family tree that led to a suspect named Clayton Foreman, who had grown up in Beaumont and attended the same high school as the victim, Edwards. Paige Harriss, ABC News, 7 Mar. 2025 Investigators identified him as a suspect, in part, after comparing the DNA profile on the knife sheath to those filed in consumer databases and building a family tree. Mike Baker, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2025 The $25,000 offering will see a genealogist build the nominee’s family tree back several generations and then walk them and their family through the findings. $305 worth of skincare products from Swiss brand INSTYTUTUM. Nicolas Vega, CNBC, 28 Feb. 2025 Since 1962, the family has been selling Canadian balsam fir trees that were grown then shipped from their family tree farm in Nova Scotia. Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 27 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for family tree
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Noun
  • The only reason to invoke such a power is to try to enable sweeping detentions and deportations of Venezuelans based on their ancestry, not on any gang activity that could be proved in immigration proceedings.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Chip Lupo, a WalletHub analyst, said that St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated by millions of Americans regardless of their ancestry.
    Ashley J. DiMella Fox News, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Miles Davis, who was in the lineage of Benny Goodman, mentored Jack DeJohnette, who mentored Terri Lynne Carrington.
    Elizabeth Alexander, Time, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Nico told Forbes in 2020 that his grandfather's legacy and his lineage of entrepreneurship inspired him to create his own branch of Marley Naturals, the family estate’s cannabis brand.
    Avalon Hester, People.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Assisting with the high-profile case, the FBI used an advanced forensic technique called investigative genetic genealogy, or IGG, with the knife sheath DNA to initially land on Kohberger as the suspect in late December 2022, prosecutors previously said.
    Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Authorities used investigative genetic genealogy – or IGG – a field of forensic science combining DNA analysis with genealogical research, to connect that sample to Kohberger’s family, prosecutors have said.
    Jean Casarez, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Highlights include kids programs, photos with the Easter bunny and family photo station.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Mary Bowers, who was adopted by a family in Colorado​ in 1982, was still waiting for answers ​to many inconsistencies in her adoption papers.
    Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Captive breeding programs have been established to safeguard the population, while conservationists are also addressing a more complex challenge: hybridization with domestic cats.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
  • This was unexpected, because Atlantic sturgeon tend to return to their natal rivers for breeding.
    Logan Kistler, The Conversation, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • While Jubilee struck a more uplifting tone compared to past albums, For Melancholy Brunettes returns to some of the band’s moodier origins.
    Chris Malone Mendez, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Season Two didn’t always help itself in that regard, devoting entire installments to Cold Harbor and to the origin of the severance process itself.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Dumb Celebs Norway has a pedigree with reality competition shows and several of the new wave fit that bill.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 20 Mar. 2025
  • From its pedigree to its casting to its themes, Levinson’s new effort comes across like a retread.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • He's taken the popular Wrangler 4xe plug-in hybrid to Hell's Revenge in Moab, Utah, a hazardous trail with steep climbs and descents.
    Morgan Korn, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Cinderella Cinderella stories begin with a bad situation that initially improves for the protagonist, then hits an emotional descent but concludes with a happily ever after.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2025

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