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progeny

[proj-uh-nee] / ˈprɒdʒ ə ni /


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Unyoked from racial prejudices and prohibitions, Eston’s progeny prospered.

From Salon Jul. 27, 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

“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

In any other sport, the progeny of a former star player ascending to the highest level would be especially noteworthy.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2025

She closed the door behind her instantly, as someone does who has been waging a long, long war on behalf of her progeny against post-bath drafts.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

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

That is growing seedling progenies of certain parent trees.

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 Burnett, Frances Hodgson




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