descendant
Example Sentences
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Like Xi, Zhang, a member of the party’s elite Politburo, is one of China’s “princelings,” as the descendants of revolutionary elders and high-ranking party officials are known.
Both men are “princelings,” as the descendants of revolutionary elders and high-ranking party officials are known.
A pilgrimage to the oldest concrete road in America detours to meeting a descendant of the undertaker who embalmed Chef Boyardee.
From Los Angeles Times
"These ancestral enzymes are more robust and flexible than their descendants, which makes them very attractive starting points for new applications in biotechnology and pharmaceutical research."
From Science Daily
He handed down his financial empire, and acumen, to descendants including J. Pierpont Morgan.
From Barron's
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