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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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Her grandmother has dementia and has to take 13 different medications.Madison Lammert, Journal Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2024
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At the time, Kensington Palace shared the cards that George, Charlotte and Louis had penned to their late grandmother, Princess Diana.Kirsty Hatcher, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough and an ancestor of Winston’s, drew his sword to protect the prince from the panicking crowd, and Samuel Pepys, the celebrated diarist and Royal Navy administrator, witnessed the sinking.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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How brujas use spirituality to honor the ancestors on Día de Muertos.Christian Orozco, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
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My grandfather, a rabbi who died this year, made it out of Europe before the Holocaust.Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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Hill, a father and grandfather, was remembered by his family and friends as a skilled tradesman and aspiring restaurateur, who had spent years working as a chef and restaurant manager.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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On Rocky's birthday on Friday, Nov. 1, the Kardashian matriarch, 68, shared a sweet post on Instagram in honor the milestone.Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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An uncle and a grandmother were among those killed in the 34-day conflict, but a loquat tree the matriarch had planted next to their home endured.Sally Abou Aljoud, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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While Bologna and Modena engaged in a friendly dispute over the paternity of Tortellini for centuries, the town of Castelfranco Emilia was declared its progenitor in the 1800s.Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Overall, Double Exposure honors players’ personal experience with its progenitor by making your past decisions reverberate in Max’s.Isaiah Colbert, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2024
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The tour group is sitting around a table having dinner and reminiscing about their forebears’ resilience, not their suffering.Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024
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Chappell Roan represents a brave new generation of artists who aren’t as pliable or agreeable as their pop forebears—less willing to cozy up to political power and a little more aware, independent, and in control of their influence.Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 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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But with relaxed censorship and a new governmental push to foster cinematic culture, the late 1990s saw the formation of the prolific South Korean auteurs best known internationally today—the forefathers of the New Korean Cinema.Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 28 Oct. 2024
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Their forefathers and descendants have been on this land for nearly 300 years starting as slaves on the plantations.John Bacon, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2024
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“Ancestress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ancestress. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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