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- noun Plural form of
ancestry .
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Examples
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The department also maintained a list of 28 countries that, along with "American Black Muslim," it described as "ancestries of interest."
The Seattle Times 2011
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Census Bureau statistics, nearly 18 percent of South River's population is comprised of Portuguese, South American, Brazilian, Mexican and other Hispanic / Latin American ancestries.
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About a quarter of these are of minority “ancestries”.
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Theobald said UCA is millions of times more probable than any theory of multiple independent ancestries.
Darwin’s Theory of Universal Common Ancestry Confirmed in First Large-Scale Test | Impact Lab 2010
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Of the surrounding communities, nearby Federal Way City, two and a half miles west of Auburn, with a population 68,500, including many of German, Norwegian, English and other European groups 'descent, also includes 23,000 (33%) with the “ancestries” mentioned above.
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According to the 2000 census, Auburn is a community of 31,000 with about 7,500 (25%) with “ancestries which are equivalent to specific race & Hispanic/Latino groups, such as Cree, Thai, Samoan & Cuban.”
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The unit focused on a list of 28 "ancestries of interest," all which are predominantly Muslim.
Rally calls for NYPD commissioner to quit over anti-Muslim training film 2012
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The department also maintained a list of 28 countries that, along with "American Black Muslim," the department labeled "ancestries of interest."
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Leach had evidently done his task with a thoroughness that Mugridge had not forgiven, for words followed and evil names involving smirched ancestries.
Chapter 9 2010
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Kent City, barely six miles north of Auburn, is a community of 64,000, with a similar population of European groups which also includes 23,000 with other “ancestries”, only 1,000 of which are African American.
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