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  roots

  adjective

  (of popular music) going back to the origins of a style, esp in being genuine and unpretentious
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  (1976) A Pulitzer Prize –winning novel by the African-American author Alex Haley, later made into a popular television drama. It traces a black American man's heritage to Africa, where his ancestors had been captured and sold as slaves.

roots

British  

/ ruːts /

adjective

1. (of popular music) going back to the origins of a style, esp in being genuine and unpretentious

   roots rock

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Roots Cultural  

1. (1976) A Pulitzer Prize –winning novel by the African-American author Alex Haley, later made into a popular television drama. It traces a black American man's heritage to Africa, where his ancestors had been captured and sold as slaves.

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The couple will put down roots in an undisclosed location, and the children’s school will be kept under wraps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

The vineyard has a system of piping spread across 1.85 hectares of the vines, which steadily drips water onto the ground around the plants' roots, and is turned on every few days.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

Bush’s brand and accent were Texan, with the hat to match, but his roots are in the WASPy New England.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

The private island, Indian Creek, represents one of South Florida’s major battlefields where the region’s newly minted billionaires are clashing with those of more modest affluence who trace their Miami roots back generations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Beneath me, the earth is uneven with roots and rocks.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

These include artists such as Áirdan, Seoid, Celtic Roots and many more.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

His company, Grass Roots, has two houses under construction but has not yet applied for permits on any others.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Britain “effectively reduced Iran to the status of a British protectorate,” according to Stephen Kinzer in All the Shah’s Men External link: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

There are a whopping twelve restaurants on the island, like Roots, a multi-course, plant-based meal made with ingredients grown on the island’s zero-waste garden.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025

Eight months earlier, in February 1992, the man who was the author of the internationally acclaimed Roots passed away suddenly in the middle of the night.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey