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paternity
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paternity as in:  use DNA to establish paternity

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    One woman even filed a paternity suit falsely claiming that Walter was the father of her child, a child that was born less than eight months after Walter's release.†  (source)
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    Her given name is Sofia and she resides in the Metropol Hotel, where she has been raised by one Alexander Rostov, a Former Person under house arrest; although there appears to be some question as to her paternity....†  (source)
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    Before I'd move the Lamartine household I'd hit the tribe with a fistful of paternity suits that would make their heads spin.†  (source)
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    He shrugged and Wendy saw Danny's paternity in the gesture; Jack could hardly have done it better himself.†  (source)
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    But unluckily the Varens, six months before, had given me this filette Adele, who, she affirmed, was my daughter; and perhaps she may be, though I see no proofs of such grim paternity written in her countenance: Pilot is more like me than she.†  (source)
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    She remembered—betwixt a smile and a shudder—the talk of the neighbouring townspeople, who, seeking vainly elsewhere for the child's paternity, and observing some of her odd attributes, had given out that poor little Pearl was a demon offspring: such as, ever since old Catholic times, had occasionally been seen on earth, through the agency of their mother's sin, and to promote some foul and wicked purpose.†  (source)
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    Heathcliff smiled again, as if it were rather too bold a jest to attribute the paternity of that bear to him.†  (source)
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    Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.†  (source)
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    Nor did he allow anyone to doubt the legitimate paternity of the count.†  (source)
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    He also told me that wolves have the same general outlook toward pups that Eskimos have toward children — which is to say that actual paternity does not count for much, and there are no orphans as we use the term.†  (source)
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    There were water rights, boundary disputes, astray arguments, domestic relations, paternity matters—all to be settled without force of arms.†  (source)
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    What is paternity to the gods, who inhabit a succession of bodies, begetting scores of offspring by others who also change bodies four or five times a century?†  (source)
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    He acknowledged the relationship and his paternity, but he stated that he had no idea where his daughter might be, and he had not had any contact with her in ten years.†  (source)
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