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Recent Examples of ancestress
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).
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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
Meanwhile, Alice, Dana’s ancestress, never becomes much more than a moral quandary: a stubborn victim who is unable to adapt.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
Yang Asha is the mythical ancestress of the Miao people, an ethnic minority in China closely related to the Hmong of Southeast Asia.
—Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2020
His own mother, aged ninety, who remembered her aunt, had been able to share stories of their ancestress with the grandchildren who’d had no idea, before now, what their background might be.
—Susan Choi, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
Enshrined at Kashikodokoro is the sun goddess Amaterasu, the mythological ancestress of Japan’s emperors.
—Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2019
Enshrined at Kashikodokoro is the sun goddess Amaterasu, the mythological ancestress of Japan's emperors.
—NBC News, 22 Oct. 2019
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
Meanwhile, Alice, Dana’s ancestress, never becomes much more than a moral quandary: a stubborn victim who is unable to adapt.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
Yang Asha is the mythical ancestress of the Miao people, an ethnic minority in China closely related to the Hmong of Southeast Asia.
—Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2020
His own mother, aged ninety, who remembered her aunt, had been able to share stories of their ancestress with the grandchildren who’d had no idea, before now, what their background might be.
—Susan Choi, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
Enshrined at Kashikodokoro is the sun goddess Amaterasu, the mythological ancestress of Japan’s emperors.
—Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2019
Enshrined at Kashikodokoro is the sun goddess Amaterasu, the mythological ancestress of Japan's emperors.
—NBC News, 22 Oct. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ancestress
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The property, investigators noted, is owned by Rivard’s grandmother, who told deputies Rivard believed Drass or someone else was tasked to care for the animals.Cristóbal Reyes, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024
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My grandmother didn’t teach me to fill and braid this beloved pastry.Emily Alben, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
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The heroine feels a sense of belonging; she is told that this is the home of her ancestors.Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
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Martínez sought to both channel their energy and encourage younger generations to pursue the music of their ancestors.Solcyré Burga, TIME, 5 Jan. 2025
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My grandfather's name is Charles Crockett, my name is Matthew Charles, and my uncle and grandfather are both Charles Hayes.Mars Salazar, Austin American-Statesman, 31 Dec. 2024
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Though thanks to a trust fund locked away by her grandfather, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, Gloria inherited $2.5 million (or about $36 million by today’s standards).Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 31 Dec. 2024
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When not dithering on about trivial matters, matriarch Ella (Leena Uotila) fusses over her spouse’s drinking habits.Dennis Harvey, Variety, 21 Dec. 2024
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The tradition originated with matriarch Kris Jenner hosting parties on Christmas Eve that all her kids remember fondly.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
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From the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, professional photographer Steven Sebring followed the poet-singer-punk progenitor across time and space, then rearranged the pieces into an impressionistic collage.Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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More often than not, the internet has been the progenitor of movements, changes, and trends in the real, physical world.Makena Kelly, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2024
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Ekuban’s aspirations for the rodeo echo the ambitions of her forebears.Caleb Gayle, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
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The watch is known simply as the Speedmaster Pilot and retains many of the features that debuted on its service-only forebear.Chris Hall, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2024
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Through our hair and its many rituals, remain the herbalism of our foremothers in the new world, passing down their ingenuity of homemade balms, creams, and oils for hair growth.Eshe Ukweli, refinery29.com, 7 June 2023
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In fact, precursors to modern bleaching processes didn’t come on the scene until the turn of the 20th century, leaving our foremothers and forefathers plenty of time to get creative with their blonde pursuits.AJ Willingham, CNN, 28 May 2023
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National Review exists to hold out a lantern in the dark, to help our readers — and each other — to grope through the long night, and to find steadying wisdom of our forefathers.Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 22 Nov. 2024
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Like their Marxist forefathers, the neocons firmly accepted the existence of a predicable, long- term process of social evolution.Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Ancestress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ancestress. Accessed 10 Jan. 2025.
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