Line
Roots
Roots noun - The condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage.
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The trope has its roots in the "aside", a trope from the European dramatic tradition that had characters making one-line comments to one another which are unheard by the other characters.
Source: Aside Glance - This crisis in turn has its roots in an earlier crisis in which a Caligula-like monarch was replaced by the middle aged and far from willing lost heir of the original royal line.
Source: Succession Crisis -
Roots chronicles the author's family line, beginning with his ancestor Kunta Kinte who was taken from his village and made a slave.
Source: Ancient Africa
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Roots and Line. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/line/roots
Line & Roots. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/line/roots>.
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