progeny

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“It was an odd pairing: Harold Macmillan, the inhibited, repressed publisher’s son, and Bob Boothby, the warm, witty progeny of an Edinburgh banker,” writes Lynne Olson.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

She’s a PhD student who disappears into some kind of meditation retreat invented by reality-star progeny Penelope Disick.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2024

This kind of teamwork can improve the chances that the progeny will survive, especially when resources are limited, Dr. Bendesky said.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2024

In less time than it takes to say “arachnophobia,” it will escape, reproduce like a bandit and send its deadly progeny scampering into every unsealed nook and cranny.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2024

The sea does not become a solid mass of cod as it would surely do if all the progeny of all the cod were to survive.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson