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Recent Examples of grandsire
As her grandsire Corlys (Steve Toussaint) settles in as the Hand of the Queen, Rhaenyra brings Queensguard Ser Steffon Darklyn (Anthony Flanagan) before the council.
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Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 22 July 2024
Daemon insults young Tully by wishing his absent grandsire a hasty trip to the grave.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 7 July 2024
Writhing in pain, Rhaenyra tells her boys that their grandsire has died and Aegon has been crowned king.
—Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 23 Oct. 2022
With 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew and 1992 Belmont winner A.P. Indy part of his pedigree, Tapit also is the grandsire of last year’s shorter Belmont winner, Tiz the Law.
—Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 5 June 2021
He was renamed Honor A.P. as a tribute to his grandsire, A.P. Indy, who died in February at the age of 30.
—Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2020
Sir Winston joined his dam sire, Afleet Alex, and one of his great-grandsires Affirmed as winners of the Belmont Stakes.
—Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al.com, 8 June 2019
Sir Winston's maternal grandsire is 2005 Belmont winner Afleet Alex.
—John Cherwa, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
His great grandsire is Seattle Slew, a Triple Crown winner in 1977.
—Neil Greenberg, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 22 July 2024
Daemon insults young Tully by wishing his absent grandsire a hasty trip to the grave.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 7 July 2024
Writhing in pain, Rhaenyra tells her boys that their grandsire has died and Aegon has been crowned king.
—Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 23 Oct. 2022
With 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew and 1992 Belmont winner A.P. Indy part of his pedigree, Tapit also is the grandsire of last year’s shorter Belmont winner, Tiz the Law.
—Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 5 June 2021
He was renamed Honor A.P. as a tribute to his grandsire, A.P. Indy, who died in February at the age of 30.
—Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2020
Sir Winston joined his dam sire, Afleet Alex, and one of his great-grandsires Affirmed as winners of the Belmont Stakes.
—Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al.com, 8 June 2019
Sir Winston's maternal grandsire is 2005 Belmont winner Afleet Alex.
—John Cherwa, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
His great grandsire is Seattle Slew, a Triple Crown winner in 1977.
—Neil Greenberg, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandsire
Noun
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The two litters are half-siblings and share the same sire (male parent), Drumlin, according to NPS.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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In wings and beak and crest, Formed like his sire, as in the feet before; But like the mare, his dam, in all the rest.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
11 June 2025
Noun
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Doyle was riding in a BMW being driven by Gary Hutch—a nephew of the Hutch gang’s patriarch, Gerry—when a gunman fired several shots into the car, causing a crash.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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The streamer has greenlit a series, titled Kennedy, that will star Michael Fassbender as patriarch Joseph Kennedy Sr.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Meanwhile, Alice, Dana’s ancestress, never becomes much more than a moral quandary: a stubborn victim who is unable to adapt.—
Julian Lucas,
The New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2021
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Yang Asha is the mythical ancestress of the Miao people, an ethnic minority in China closely related to the Hmong of Southeast Asia.—
Keith Bradsher,
New York Times,
26 Nov. 2020
Noun
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He was raised by his mother and his maternal grandmother, who legally adopted him.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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In low, incantatory voices, the lamas were reading from The Tibetan Book of the Dead, encouraging my grandmother to move forward without fear in the bardo between death and rebirth.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Grandsire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandsire. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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