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
Between House House’s pedigree and the strength of the ideas, this could be one of the best indie games to arrive in 2026.
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Matt Gardner, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
Rodgers and the Steelers had been connected throughout the offseason, being a favorable team with a veteran head coach and a playoff pedigree.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 5 June 2025
And thanks to his championship pedigree, Siakam provided valuable advice to his teammates in the locker room.
—Shakeia Taylor, New York Times, 1 June 2025
Here’s your chance to acquire a classic off-roader with a presidential pedigree.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 30 May 2025
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Matt Gardner, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
Rodgers and the Steelers had been connected throughout the offseason, being a favorable team with a veteran head coach and a playoff pedigree.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 5 June 2025
And thanks to his championship pedigree, Siakam provided valuable advice to his teammates in the locker room.
—Shakeia Taylor, New York Times, 1 June 2025
Here’s your chance to acquire a classic off-roader with a presidential pedigree.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 30 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pedigree
Noun
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Previous studies have proven the existence of two lineages, northern Native American and southern Native American, which developed after people first arrived on the continent across an ice bridge from Siberia and started to move south.—
Jack Guy,
CNN Money,
11 June 2025
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What has that looked like in practice, sharing the history, sonic lineages, and socio-political context involved in the making of electronic music?—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 June 2025
Noun
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People of Mexican ancestry who live in border counties along the Rio Grande, for example, are likely more hawkish on immigration than, say, a Dominican American in Washington Heights in NYC.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
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People with African ancestry tend to have high porosity hair.12 Also, people with gray hair or light-colored hair and people of older age are more likely to have highly porous hair.12 Characteristics of High Porosity Hair High porosity hair can have various characteristics.—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
4 June 2025
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In 2022, the DNA Doe Project started fundraising to use Bone Lake Jane Doe’s DNA to conduct forensic investigative genetic genealogy.—
Sarah Dahlberg,
NBC news,
12 June 2025
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For the love of genealogy, couldn’t it just have been passed on to another member of the family or lived out its life in the basement?—
Sherry Kuehl,
Kansas City Star,
11 June 2025
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Zoo officials will continue their breeding and conservation programs with a focus on sustaining endangered reptilian species.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 June 2025
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The state officially entered the second phase of its wolf conservation efforts this spring, after four breeding pairs of wolves had pups who survived through December two years in a row.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
11 June 2025
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In conversation with Forbes Life, Stoddard speaks about her travels during her research, the origins of ralli and the future of this age-old, beautiful craft.—
Sonya Rehman,
Forbes.com,
15 June 2025
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The movie charts the influential British rock group's origin story in the late 1960s, from their earliest days – and how everybody wasn't all about that now-iconic name – to their meteoric rise as one of the world's biggest bands.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
14 June 2025
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“Pedigree.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pedigree. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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