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progeny

[proj-uh-nee] / ˈprɒdʒ ə ni /


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But none of this—its imperfect construction, its lack of architectural progeny, its scientific failure—affects its intrinsic greatness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Monsters though Lestat and his makers and progeny may be, they were all mortal once, and that seed of humanity still exists inside of them or, in Claudia’s case, around them.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

Family was a major theme of the night, with numerous stars spotlighting their talented progeny, as was the importance of soulful artistry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

And Standard Oil’s progeny formed the core of the “Seven Sisters” oil majors that divvied up among themselves the Middle East’s resources until the 1970s.

From Barron's ● May 7, 2026

He bred short-tall hybrids with short-tall hybrids to produce third-generation progeny.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The series wisely taps some familiar faces from Bravo shows of yore, tossing “Housewives” progenies Ariana Biermann, Riley Burruss, Gia Giudice and Brooks Marks into the batter before adding a few special ingredients.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2025

Symbolically, though, the first of Johnson’s hallmark progenies graced a route that bendies had snaked along and where the Routemaster had met its end – the number 38, which links Hackney with Victoria.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2015

But more than just being little progenies, the Smith children combine their beyond-their-years giftedness with a truly kid-like apparent pleasure in what they do.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2010

But out of those six we have three trees, the seed of which will produce seedling progenies that come very true to the type of the parent tree.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Infancy was no novelty in this region of numerous progenies, but the fine softness of raiment and delicate sumptuousness of infancy were.

From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Frances Hodgson Burnett




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