as in lineages
the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended
his family tree includes writers, musical composers, and other notables in the arts
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Recent Examples of family trees
However, once the series took over everyone’s TVs, some internet sleuths determined that their family trees do not cross.
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Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
For a year and a half, the detectives first approached a large volume of low-match DNA results which could be traced back to existing American family trees.
—Claire Lempert, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2025
The organization works with law enforcement agencies nationwide, using volunteer investigative genetic genealogists to build extensive family trees and trace DNA matches.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Soon the coffee table was strewn with newspaper clippings, family trees, and maps of the land.
—Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2025
Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
For a year and a half, the detectives first approached a large volume of low-match DNA results which could be traced back to existing American family trees.
—Claire Lempert, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2025
The organization works with law enforcement agencies nationwide, using volunteer investigative genetic genealogists to build extensive family trees and trace DNA matches.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Soon the coffee table was strewn with newspaper clippings, family trees, and maps of the land.
—Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for family trees
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This evolution is driven by a combination of random mutations and natural selection, where the organisms that are most fit for survival, and most adaptable to the changes that occur in their conditions and environment, are the ones who aren’t selected against, and whose lineages continue.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
16 Sep. 2025
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Slavers didn’t keep records of family lineages and the enslaved couldn’t do so.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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The box covers the most popular classes and ancestries such as humans, elves, dwarves and halflings.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Behind Chalet Alpina are two development teams with impressive pedigrees.—
Jordi Lippe-McGraw,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Transcripts, grammars, vocabularies, dictionaries, glyph studies, botanical studies, commentaries, articles, editions of codices, correspondence, maps, charts, drawings, photographs, Maya Society materials, genealogies of Maya families, and Mayan glyphs on moveable type.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Sep. 2025
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And families and students aren’t just paying for tuition—they’re buying into an environment.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The primary goal of these UBI pilots is to help individuals and families through a transition period.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Both filmmakers traced their creative origins to childhood encounters with monsters and Japanese animation.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
20 Sep. 2025
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Following this storyline, most accounts of Korea just after World War II look at these years for the origins of the Korean War.—
Kornel Chang
September 19,
Literary Hub,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Family trees.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/family%20trees. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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