as in lineage
the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended
a woman of good pedigree
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Recent Examples of pedigree
When the pair stops fishing for casuals, focusing on impressing each other and the musicians in orbit, the album’s pedigree flashes.
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
Penn State’s stronger pedigree and players deliver a pounding of the ponies.
—Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
Her pedigree and expertise are exactly what the company needs for this exciting next chapter of growth.
—Peter White, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
That pedigree and status turned Kelly into a piece of the Paul Goldschmidt trade with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
—Sahadev Sharma, The Athletic, 14 Dec. 2024
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
Penn State’s stronger pedigree and players deliver a pounding of the ponies.
—Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
Her pedigree and expertise are exactly what the company needs for this exciting next chapter of growth.
—Peter White, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
That pedigree and status turned Kelly into a piece of the Paul Goldschmidt trade with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
—Sahadev Sharma, The Athletic, 14 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pedigree
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The experience includes an exploration of the world’s longest lineage of single-vintage wines dating to 1878.Paula Conway, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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As the first true dinosaurs emerged, some remained omnivorous, while early predecessors of the Allosaurus and T. rex lineage began to hunt insects and fish.Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Dec. 2024
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The Mother, of course, is white with good ancestry and Belle inherits brains & ability.Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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Does reading about one of the most common birds on the planet sharing ancestry with a fearsome predator like the Tyrannosaurus rex reinforce a belief that animals are just as fascinating as humans?Scott Travers, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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Police could also have tried to use commercial databases to identify the suspect through genetic genealogy, but that process would have taken even longer, Giacalone said.N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2024
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There’s a chance the suspect could be isolated using genetic genealogy, if one of his relatives entered their DNA data into a public database.Holly Yan, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
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Roads and highways have carved up previously wide-open stretches of desert into parcels that are in some cases too small to allow for the breeding and genetic diversity needed to sustain their population health.Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
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The wolves sourced from Oregon, which now include a breeding female and four pups, initially were located in Grand County, but killed as many as a dozen livestock, creating pressure to relocate them.John Frank, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
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Unfortunately, our origin stories don’t tell us how to resolve any particular ethical dispute.Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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The site was once the Angola Plantations, a slave plantation owned by Isaac Franklin and named after Angola, the country of origin for many of the enslaved people who worked there.Landon Mion, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Pedigree.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pedigree. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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