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The dog’s pedigree showed generations of championship winners.pedigree = recorded ancestry
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The network news likes to hire journalists with a distinguished newspaper pedigree.pedigree = history of development
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The colt’s impressive pedigree made him a favorite at the auction, with several top stables bidding for him.pedigree = recorded ancestry
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She came from a long pedigree of musicians stretching back four generations.pedigree = family history
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This was her way of saying that despite my pedigree we were in effect starting from scratch.† (source)
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He asked about the animals' pedigree and my breeding methods.† (source)
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The corner of a pedigree pinched between his fingers.† (source)
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A curved, gilded staircase dominates the area, creating a picture-perfect setting for couples with long dresses and tuxes, tasteful accents and pedigrees.† (source)
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Earlier in the year, he added to this pedigreed resume his appointment as the undersecretary of state to John Foster Dulles.† (source)
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He cut his teeth on Montana match races, relays on unpedigreed horses in Indian country, and contests at rough tracks with names like Chinook and Stampede.† (source)unpedigreed = not with a distinguished backgroundstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unpedigreed means not and reverses the meaning of pedigreed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Louie, who knew only a smattering of English until he was in grade school, couldn't hide his pedigree.† (source)
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An overweight high school principal who barely finished college, and a pack of angry housewives with pedigrees that couldn't rival Boo Radley's, hardly qualify.† (source)
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She was wealthy and pedigreed, living in her parents' mansion and educated in private schools.† (source)
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First, by beginning your breeding program with dogs you found "excellent in temperament and structure" but of unpedigreed stock, you have made attaining your objective—and I admit I don't fully understand it—immeasurably harder.† (source)
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Maybe, with my Southern drawl and lack of a family pedigree, I felt like I needed proof that I belonged at Yale Law.† (source)
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Fine old families; their pedigrees ensure a large degree of sticking together and giving advice to one another.† (source)
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