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Recent Examples of grandsire
Daemon insults young Tully by wishing his absent grandsire a hasty trip to the grave.
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Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 7 July 2024
As her grandsire Corlys (Steve Toussaint) settles in as the Hand of the Queen, Rhaenyra brings Queensguard Ser Steffon Darklyn (Anthony Flanagan) before the council.
—Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 22 July 2024
He was renamed Honor A.P. as a tribute to his grandsire, A.P. Indy, who died in February at the age of 30.
—Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2020
Writhing in pain, Rhaenyra tells her boys that their grandsire has died and Aegon has been crowned king.
—Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 23 Oct. 2022
With 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew and 1992 Belmont winner A.P. Indy part of his pedigree, Tapit also is the grandsire of last year’s shorter Belmont winner, Tiz the Law.
—Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 5 June 2021
Sir Winston joined his dam sire, Afleet Alex, and one of his great-grandsires Affirmed as winners of the Belmont Stakes.
—Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al.com, 8 June 2019
Sir Winston's maternal grandsire is 2005 Belmont winner Afleet Alex.
—John Cherwa, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
His great grandsire is Seattle Slew, a Triple Crown winner in 1977.
—Neil Greenberg, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 7 July 2024
As her grandsire Corlys (Steve Toussaint) settles in as the Hand of the Queen, Rhaenyra brings Queensguard Ser Steffon Darklyn (Anthony Flanagan) before the council.
—Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 22 July 2024
He was renamed Honor A.P. as a tribute to his grandsire, A.P. Indy, who died in February at the age of 30.
—Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2020
Writhing in pain, Rhaenyra tells her boys that their grandsire has died and Aegon has been crowned king.
—Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 23 Oct. 2022
With 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew and 1992 Belmont winner A.P. Indy part of his pedigree, Tapit also is the grandsire of last year’s shorter Belmont winner, Tiz the Law.
—Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 5 June 2021
Sir Winston joined his dam sire, Afleet Alex, and one of his great-grandsires Affirmed as winners of the Belmont Stakes.
—Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al.com, 8 June 2019
Sir Winston's maternal grandsire is 2005 Belmont winner Afleet Alex.
—John Cherwa, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
His great grandsire is Seattle Slew, a Triple Crown winner in 1977.
—Neil Greenberg, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandsire
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Its legendary decades-long preeminence came to an abrupt end in 1990, when Alydar, racing’s most illustrious sire of champions at the time who was worth $45 million, died under inexplicable circumstances.GrrlScientist, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Sierra Leone Wins $7 million BC Classic Sierra Leone won the $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic Saturday, just as his sire did at Del Mar in 2017.Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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The patriarch prepared all 10 of his children—five sons and five daughters—to manage the family business, according to a report from The Washington Post in 2003.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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The two girls from the Aussie patriarch and his third wife Wendi Deng have an economic interest in the trust but no voting control.Dominic Patten, Deadline, 9 Dec. 2024
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The intersection of these two facts does convince me that William's genealogical ancestress, Eliza Kewark, did have South Asian ancestry (not totally surprising even in notionally ethnically distinct groups like Armenians or Parsis who have been long resident in India).Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2013
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Instead of being a reticulated mesh the genealogy of mtDNA is a clean and inverted elegant tree leading back to a common ancestress.Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2010
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Meanwhile, Mangione's grandmother Mary died in 2023 from complications from Parkinson's disease.Jordana Comiter, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
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Much of the emotion stemmed from working with Selleck after growing up watching him on television with his mother and grandmother, both of whom have since passed away.Elizabeth Stanton, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Grandsire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandsire. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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