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ancestral

An ancestor or forbear.

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#1·Apr 27, 2026

An ancestor or forbear.

Some big cheese bein' grought back to his native island to get planted with his ancestrals.
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  • “The flame of Ninetails combined with your ancestral dances makes for a potent combination. If I have earned your trust, shall we venture to the hot springs of Mimaka together? I want to take Katalina, to—ahem—rejuvenate her from her travels.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Zionism is fundamentally about Jewish peoplehood and self-determination in their ancestral homeland after centuries of exile and persecution. Many Jews who hesitate on the label still reject the idea of dismantling the world's only Jewish state.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “I gave away a cruise I won and felt no ways about it. Call it ancestral trauma or whatever, but don’t put me on no boat where I can’t see the shoreline the size of a mall. No.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#2·Apr 27, 2026

Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors.

It seems that people with an ancestral history of enduring famines develop a tendency to store more body fat, becoming overfat even when they aren’t overweight.
Origin: From , from ancestor, equivalent to. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Cluster: general
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  • “The ancestral wealth code is a trans-generational nervous system program. It manifests as a 'fate' signature, a pre-set financial ceiling. This is not choice. This is inherited energetic architecture, operating below conscious threshold. Disruption via direct observation.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Tuesday (Mars' Day), May 5 2026: ✨️ Ancestral QOTD by Malcolm X”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “States have no rights. People have rights. 'Right olive' LOL. Does that refer to the thousands of ancient Palestinian olive trees Israel has chopped down. Askenazi Jews have 50 - 70% European DNA. In what sense is Palestine ancestral to them?”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “📖 (1/5) Numbers 4:42 ופקודי משפחת בני מררי למשפחתם לבית אבתם The enrollment of the Merarite clans by the clans of their ancestral house,”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “You travel to other places, and you get a sense that people are still connected, to some degree or another, to their ancestral lands and to each other. Here, it’s mainly transactional.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#3·Apr 27, 2026

(India, law) A descendant of one's ancestors.

I thought of the strange two-dimensional world these forebearing ancestrals had to live in.
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  • “Significado de #prehomínido Significa predecessor dos hominídeos. Ancestral primata dos seres humanos... prehomínido”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “More sacred ancestral lands being taken away so profit can be extracted from the land.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Ten Njoka. Redguard mystic wanderer who opposes the status quo. Practitioner of eldritch ancestral magic.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “La Fiesta de la Rama en Agaete: Descubre una Celebración Ancestral Única #FiestaDeLaRama #Agaete #GranCanaria”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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