grandsire

archaic

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Recent Examples of grandsire Daemon insults young Tully by wishing his absent grandsire a hasty trip to the grave. 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
Noun
  • The talented runners in the 2025 Santa Anita Derby are from super sires.
    Jay Ginsbach, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Bos also ensured Kacey was supervised throughout her heat cycle, making an outside sire highly unlikely.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But their fishing empire has started to crumble as patriarch Harlan Buckley (Holt McCallany) recovers from two heart attacks, and his wife Belle (Maria Bello) and son Cane (Jake Weary) venture into the deep end to keep the family businesses afloat.
    Emily Longeretta, Variety, 9 Apr. 2025
  • But their fishing empire has started to crumble as patriarch Harlan Buckley (McCallany) recovers from two heart attacks, and his wife Belle (Bello) and son Cane (Weary) venture into the deep end to keep the family businesses afloat.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Indian women are taught by their mothers and grandmothers to massage oils into their hair from a young age.
    Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Among those stopped was Yolanda Aguilera Martinez, a farmworker and grandmother who lives legally in the U.S. and has no criminal record.
    Amy Maxmen | KFF Health News, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2025

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“Grandsire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandsire. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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