descendent

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About 500,000 Haitians and tens of thousands of their descendents live in the Dominican Republic, a Spanish-speaking nation of about 11 million people, according to the most recent immigration survey conducted in 2018.

From Reuters

Scholars David Blight and Henry Louis Gates Jr. and a Douglass descendent are among those offering context.

From Seattle Times

UK officials are also keeping an eye on a recent descendent of the Delta variant, called AY.4.2 or "Delta plus".

From BBC

He was a direct descendent of King Cetshwayo, who led the Zulus in the war with the British army in 1879.

From BBC

In the early 20th century, South Africa’s British imperial rulers gave the lion’s share of farmland to whites, mostly to the Afrikaners, descendents of generations of Dutch settlers who make up most white farmers today.

From Reuters