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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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president-elect Barak Obama, who is ancestrally from Africa, for the victory he scored in the most recent American presidential elections.
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