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ancestral
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ancestral
Logic a relation that holds between x and y if there is a chain of instances of a given relation leading from x to y. Thus the ancestral of parent of is ancestor of, since x is the ancestor of y if and only if x is a parent of…a parent of…a parent of y


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If my reaction is any indication, Beckham-Galaxy Soccer has real hope for whipping up interest in a sport that America has always ignored, despite the fact that most people are ancestrally tied to a country in which soccer is the unofficial second religion.
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