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descend

[dih-send] / dɪˈsɛnd /


VERB
trace ancestry from; be passed or handed down
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The beaches are packed as visitors descend on the Black Sea from all over Ukraine.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

Free cash flow, which exceeded $12 billion in the first quarter, dwindled to less than $784 million, although it didn’t descend into negative territory as analysts had forecast.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

Every koala alive today appears to descend from a single ancestral population that endured dramatic environmental shifts, including intense glacial periods.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

Rescuers first had to descend via a rubble-strewn parking lot ramp and navigate a flight of stairs, ever-aware of the danger of a new collapse of the tottering structure.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 5, 2026

At the centre top there is a representation of Papin’s piston powered by the pressure of the atmosphere: once the steam has condensed, removal of the pin labelled E causes the piston to descend.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

It simply descends as you travel west from Bordeaux along empty roads and through deserted villages.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

Island arcs, chains of volcanoes that develop above subduction zones where one oceanic plate descends beneath another, are often unusually rich in gold.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

As firefighters in southwest France struggle to bring a forest inferno under control before yet another heatwave descends on the country, Filippi told AFP about the phenomenon.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

Plans are in the works for a variety of unique, ancillary creations including a 15-second slide that mimics the path of reentry as a space shuttle descends back into Earth’s atmosphere.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 2026

They want to put the Wall between them before the night descends.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Their goal was to distinguish cells descended from the original population of microglia that had been present since birth from cells descended from blood stem cells in the bone marrow later in life.

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

Rumoured to be descended from Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty, Zhu was born in the central city of Changsha in 1928 into a China riven by civil war.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

More job cuts pegged to AI descended this week, Patrick Coffee reports for the newsletter:

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Domenico Pianese, the Secretary-General of the police union, criticised Lepore's decision to call for a demonstration that later descended into chaos.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

When the horses drew up to the graveyard’s towering iron gates, she descended the carriage steps, and greeted the cemetery’s watchman.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Some of the biggest Arabic artists in the world are descending on the UK on Saturday - for a "first of its kind" music festival.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

The researchers originally suspected that water released from the descending plate might directly control how much gold entered the magma.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

Andy Burnham has been Britain’s prime minister for less than a week, and already his administration is descending into chaos.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Now, with a heat wave descending over much of Southern California, residents worry the odor could get even worse and scores of residents have called air quality regulators to complain.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

There was a grass-grown track descending the forest aisle between hoar and knotty shafts and under branched arches.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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